>>211550367
The smartphone and in particular its social media apps have been utterly disastrous. I personally didn't really feel a change on the internet until 2013/2014, which was when smartphones started to become ubiquitous.
>>211555654
>browsing the sites of individual japanese remixers in the mid-late 00s
>listen to their midis and mp3s of video game remixes
>all the sites linked to each other
>eventually discover muzie
>went on link trips browsing video game remixes by amateurs for hours
>most of the sites are dead now
And that's only one example. The internet felt a lot more dense back then, like a neighborhood that was lived in. Now everyone has been siloed into in their own echo chambers and fed curated content designed to farm outrage or doomerism.
I think society can limit the damage caused by smartphones by banning social media apps, or at the very least limiting them (4chan included) to desktop browsers. But I know this idea is a pipedream as corpos would lose money if it happened.