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.
December 08, 2024
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December 2024
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.
February 2024
Money ruins everything
November 2023
I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.
September 2023
"Grift shift" is a lovely term
The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.
August 2023
Sounds like a good explanation and roughly how I understand the expression, too.
June 2023
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.
May 2023
April 2023
Imgur is banning porn and purging old anonymous uploads #
Google, Amazon, and Meta are making their core products worse — on purpose #