This has probably been posted already, but this article came to mind when reddit entered its death spiral. An interesting observation on the rise and fall of social media.
Beehaw can’t be interacted with through lemmy.world so I thought id crosspost it here for all to see...
I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1012053
the feeling of dredd i’ve had (and i bet many are with me) since reddit announced the changes to the API and elon bought twitter, has been perfectly represented in this essay. Once again we migrate from a place where we built a community, because a bunch of greedy assholes can’t fathom a world where people embrace human...
This is an article by Cat Valente during the Twitter Migration, discussing the cycle of enschittification and the history of social media....
Everyone needs to read this.