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Stephan Alexander's avatar

Increasingly I feel pretty jaded with most online platforms. The space as a whole is competitive but within each feifdom, the lord rules with an iron fist. YouTube has demonitized several videos (for no apparent reason) from a creator I love; reddit is nuking the app I use most often (why not just buy Apollo?); Twitter is jamming paid blue check comments into every popular tweet thread.

Spending time on niche subreddits is a real delight that I can't find anywhere else on the web, but reddit is a private corp with its own interests that are not at all congruent with my own. I'm more persuaded by the Jaron Lanier thesis every day--the advertising revenue model is likely at the heart of many of these problems.

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kt's avatar

Ngl wish i was still modding a big sub for all this tea. The end of the usable internet is upon us; google is mostly “snackable” content and facebook, reddit and twitter are having such silly death gasps it might bring back BBS in a new way. Whatever, i sent my six bucks in the mail.

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