What’s going on?
AI generated Reddit
Ad-blocks-you-back Youtube
Login locked pay-to-win Twitter
We are cattle to the elite’s ad revenue system.
The second golden age of the internet is officially over.
Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.
We’ll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I’m not sure.
I’m fine with that.
if it’s time to have conversations with actual people face to face, then so be it.
The utopian dream of the internet as the great equalizer and “Information wants to be free!” is dead.
Why did the whole internet seemingly decide to kick their enshittification into overdrive in the past month?
If like me, you only engage with Twitter to the extent of clicking on a link that takes you to a Tweet, reading it and then getting the hell out before the brain dead replies consume what little remains of your soul, then can I recommend Googling up an addon for your preferred browser that redirects Twitter to Nitter as a way around this new barrier to entry.
There is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ in case you are not aware which supports A LOT of different services besides twitter.
Most of those servers are dead though (including some nitter instances). You will need to manually disable those that don’t work and it’s pain in the ass.
At least until they break nitter, as they already did with the +18 content.
There’s also an Android app that redirects to nitter as well as other free and open mirrors of other sites like Instagram, reddit, tiktok…
Reddit: Demonstrates that locking away content is bad for the site and the wider internet.
Elon Musk: “I want that for my website!”
They seem to be inspiring each other these days.
"Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow. "
I think it’s good, I think only Twitter blue people should be able to read tweets.
So they can kiss user growth goodbye. It’s interesting to watch, because it’s like someone who has no understanding of the business model is running it. Embedded tweets and viewing tweets on the web is free advertising!