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 not something I had to think about a lot, because honestly my personal sensibilities are are even more vanilla than most corporate social media sites. Alas, he is of course absolutely right, people should be able to let their freak flag fly on their own websites and curators (human or semi-automated like webrings) should give them spaces to do so.

Trust me on the websites.

(Oh. And the sunscreen.)

This is amazing

Personal websites are the best

Oh, interesting idea! The wavey underline reminds me of a spellchecker, though.

The whole problem space of social norms, audience etc. is super interesting, especially in spaces like the IndieWeb and the Fediverse which are by definition fractured and diverse.

Absolutely. You should have a personal website, even if it is just a simple landing page.

I like links

This is quite a list.

I think this is the last post I link to on the topic of Social Media bridges. It is a really good one, though.

I'm pretty sure that's it:

And maybe what’s missing now is simply connection.

The connections and communications moved to "Social Media" and will probably stay there.

Money ruins everything

Personal websites are the best

These days its all meme accounts

I absolutely agree - all of this is way too complicated. And I do this stuff for a living.

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

Yes. You, too.

This is interesting. I didn't expect POSSE explained on The Verge in that much detail

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

Go do it!

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.

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.