Dominik Schwind

Minchin is such an interesting person. I went ahead and ordered the book immediately.

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.

Really good article on how things are at the moment.

Hm.

Thumbs up

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people

Money ruins everything

Oh wow. This is good.

These days its all meme accounts

This is probably the best headline of the month

That doesn't make the bicycle guy look particularly good.

I might still be blocking ads, to be honest.

This is why we can't have nice things.

It's a bit sad but yes. Sure, there's Mastodon but even there it doesn't just feel the same.

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

This is quite strange

I'm not on threads (because Europe) but this is still highly amusing to me. I guess that's how religions start?

Good grief.

I feel this loss of community online every day.

Absolutely. I do miss the short time when people just used the things we now call social media for fun but maybe it is okay the way it is right now.

"Grift shift" is a lovely term

I guess it's performance art?

Honestly: yes. I just feel bad for people who haven't found their group chats, yet.

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.

We like things not just because we’re exposed to them, but because, before exposure, we have opened our hearts to liking them.

Oh well.

Fascinating

According to that filter I look old already anyway. I couldn't see any difference between the two pictures.