The Internet as You Know It Is Dying
substack.com
The Internet as You Know It Is Dying
The economics of the internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important—and more profitable—than the truth. With the mass media—and today, mass culture—relying on the web for the next big thing, it is a set of incentives with massive implications.
Ryan Holiday • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
westobserver.com
Also, the Internet is enshittified, Google has been SEO’d into ruin, and all of this is about to get worse with the explosion of AI manufactured garbage flooding the web. Human curation will become infinitely more valuable. That’s the insight. It’s huge, it’s exciting, and… it’s completely useless on its own. -Sari Azout