new internet
special fish
special.fish🚨This is the trap that social media, and by extension all of us, are in:
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
I think we see a decline in the big "open sea" social networks, replaced increasingly by fragmented silos. I don't know what will happen to Twitter, but if Elon's shenanigans cause it to fail I don't think we'll ever see anything quite like it take its place:
Lars Doucet Dec 26 • AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
river
river.maxbittker.comThe internet really w as better, back before it turned into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”
Enshitternet – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
why is this site so barebones? aren't you a designer?
- it feels more honest this way.
kelin
But, the enshittification of the internet isn't a consequence of entropy, it's a choice. And it's blatantly clear that the choice of the builder of these systems aren't trying to help their users anymore.