When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the #enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
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@pluralistic just read the blog post. Really enlightening. I'll be sharing this with some friends, and maybe this will finally convince me to drop my Gmail account.