I say the day Mozilla bends the knee to advertisers and do what Chrome did by phasing out ad-blockers with Firefox. That’ll be the day when I look around my apartment and realize “man, I need to start getting into some hobbies now.”
Well… that would be hard. Maintaining, upgrading and extending a corner of the Internet is my day-job.
So I guess the minimum would be that some other international communications network takes over and Swiss tertiary education institutes would all like to be connected to that instead of the Internet.
Then all the multiplayer games I host for my international friend group would also have to support this new stack of protocols, same for my communications channels, most of all chat apps and email. Then I could also move my personal use cases off the Internet.
Then I could be done with it.
The real question is why would we ever do that, it sounds insanely costly, and not that much is wrong with IPv4 and IPv6.
My death.
yea, i heard hell has internet but no ad blockers
I don’t think I’ll ever be done with the internet. But it’s becoming clear to me that the kind of internet experience that I want (no ads, free and open source software, minimal mega-corpo investment in said software) will necessarily require more from me (more technical understanding, more configuring, &c).
I’m not sure. It might take a lot. Even if they introduce passport verification for internet access and for every website you access, I think people will find a way around it and for example just move to an anonymous network like something on this list
To be honest I think I’m nearly already there in terms of using any service that requires interaction with other meat bags. I find having personal opinions that differ (even slightly) from the echo chambers (even when stated as being just an opinion) makes it a constant battle to stay civil, and I’m not sure it will ever get better. Add in all the spam, constant battle against advertising, bot accounts etc and I really can’t be bothered as I don’t really feel like I’m missing out on much.
And the same goes for the offline world too. People need to unplug more.
probably when I have to show ID. at that point, I’m just going to read books and work on hobbies. I mostly use the internet at work anyway. when I’m at home, I’m usually working on something else.
EMP or a Coronal Mass Ejection.
Gamma ray bursts are a good, terrifying, black swan event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
These extreme electromagnetic emissions are second only to the Big Bang as the most energetic and luminous phenomena known.
A gamma-ray burst in the Milky Way pointed directly at Earth would likely sterilize the planet or cause a mass extinction.[13]
Since GRBs are thought to involve beamed emission along two jets in opposing directions, only planets in the path of these jets would be subjected to the high energy gamma radiation.[145] A GRB could potentially vaporize anything in its beams’ paths within a range of around 200 light-years.[146][147]
Oh cool, a new one we can do nothing about… And people worry abut the silliest things these days when this is out there.
Probably when something better replaces it, unfortunately. I depend on the Internet for my job as well as all my socializing, so it would be pretty hard for me to live without it.
The internet as a network is too useful. It would take the enshitification of the fundamental protocols to make a dent (udp/tcp). Maybe dns too.
I can’t wait to “retire” and work offline and be away from the screens a lot more.
The Internet is too useful. Email, online banking, and the ability to find reasearch materials are essential to me.
However, i have abandoned all social media except the fediverse. I only use youtube for specific instructional videos - not for entertainment. If i am looking for fun, i look somewhere else. One exception: Qobuz for music (they are a French streaming platform).
how’d you land on qobuz? what do you like about it?
If the internet were to completely collapse. I will use the Internet until I cannot use it anymore.
After which it’s time to run some cables and connect to my neighbors. Then the rest of the town. And with some help I can run a fiber to the next city over.
I already have the hardware required due to an obscene amount scavenger from work, and I have enough rack space at home to function as a local ISP so that at least my extended neighborhood is covered.
The day internet truly dies, the only reasonable thing to do is to create a new one.
Depends on what in using it for. There is no way to fully avoid the Internet anymore. You can’t interact with businesses or government without it. So, for that, we’re stuck with it.
I work in IT so I’ll be stuck with it there. I already have no expectation of privacy at work, though.
For entertainment and engaging with communities like Lemmy, I think losing anonymity through mandatory online id would be the nail in the coffin.
I already moderate myself on social media, but I have an outlet in these communities. I would simply stop using them if I lost that.
I would guess underground networks would rise up to replace them, but I would not want to put myself at risk. I don’t trust VPNs enough for that.
I’m FT WFH so the day I’m fired or retired at the earliest
I would say never because banking and such is to convenient but man companies keep making their sites interfaces worse and worse.
