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.

This is almost art

I like all of this so very much

I like this. It looks like a MovableType blog. (Which I think it still is.)

Money ruins everything

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

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

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.