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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It was meant for porn en now the biggest part of it is porn. I'd say a success.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As far a I know the porn industry has actualy driven innovation in various web-technologies including streaming, e-commerce, VR...and now probably AI, I guess.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago

We should put porn on climate change

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Internet is really really great 🎶

[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 6 points 11 months ago

I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait 🎶

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the biggest part of the internet is porn. There's a LOT of porn and a few really big porn sites, but I don't think they hold a candle to social media and shopping.

I found this link that has porn being #s 14 and 15. It was actually hard to find recent data that included porn at all. I think some counters were too embarrassed to admit porn existed.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Those are just the biggest sites. Also 12 is a porn site. But it doesn't say anything about the size of the total porn on the web. Like, amount of sites and content. Estimates are roughly 80% of the entire internet is porn.