I believe you're conflating too much "the internet" with "your feed", you cna step away from any feed that exploits your attention and now does so easily with ai generated content. That's not the internet that's mostly social media. If you love builsing for the web why don't you and many others step up and start something new? You're even in the right place here. Whatever you want to do to make the web a place where you'd still hang out do it. But first, close the feed. The internet is not the feed, the feed is you behaving like a zombie
At first I thought you were a bit contemptuous. After all, we don't know what OP is really doing on the net.
But after reading a lot of the other comments, I think you're on to something. A lot of people mistake social media with the Internet (not saying OP or any one here is), showing that they (SM) somehow won (for now) and it's sad.
It's the nineties back again, when most ISP logged you in their application (looking at you AOL) or on their website. People open their phone and go directly on Instagram, Fb, or whatever, and they're "on the web" they think.
