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Is it worth purging online stuff? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have way too many photos (9.9k), mostly memes, mostly which I will never see again. I have way too many musical artists in my library. For a long time I added practically every song I heard (and more albums from the same artists). All of this is on Apple. Is it worth going through and purging it (especially when the internet’s dying anyway and who knows what infrastructure we’ll have in five years or more)? Any advice for de-appleing for someone whose hyperfixations do not include computer nerd stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I couldn't read the entire piece, it felt like a rambling thought line that didn't get edited or streamlined.

Regardless, I can relate to the sentiment, but I disagree about the reasons. A lot of what made the early internet fun and engaging is lost, but not because of being bored of the trend but because the experience was slightly changed to be a bit worse in favor of profits a million of times. Back when it was all blogs, forums and random websites, individuals would write and share ideas, have conversations and whether that could be a way to make money was not the point. Now we live and die by the whims of the algorithm, 90% of internet traffic is 5 websites and people don't really own the content they make for money rather than fun.