Dominik Schwind

A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.

the Internet’s business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.

Yes. And double yes:

And don’t tell me about enshittification, that is a thought-terminating cliche that does not actually perform useful or interesting analysis and is little more than the new “just use linux” of annoying Fediverse reply guys.

It's pretty fascinating - and probably something that will happen more and more in the future.

Money ruins everything

Okay, I will.

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

This one is fun.

The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.

Sounds like a good explanation and roughly how I understand the expression, too.

Let's see how long it takes until I'm done listening to this particular type of Indonesian music

Today I learned about Dangdut

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed that set.

As large platforms emerged — whether they were for search, social, or e-commerce — the deal was that they would make our digital lives easier and, in exchange, we would give them our data, attention, and, increasingly, actual money.