Everyone needs to read this.
Very understandable for a millennial and younger audience. I remember multiple apps and web services turn from cheap useful tools into crap. Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, every food delivery app were all great at one point until the late stage capitalism machine hits. They all destroy themselves to hit profitability targets that no company can achieve.
The thing is most would be very profitable companies if the executive wing wasn’t so damn greedy trying to eek out the highest salary and bonus possible so they can have that new shiny gold watch and fancy car to impress their “friends”. It’s human greed, plain and simple, and it’s not limited only to social media companies.
That was a great read, I’d never heard of Prodigy, but its sad how since the beginning of the internet, companies have been trying to monetize community and just end up destroying it.
This writing is a little too emotional, but I understand what it is trying to say. I think it is always someone’s emotions that make something newer than it is now.
Damn, that was actually really good. I’m not as old as the writer here, but I did experience a lot of what they describe. And it’s almost funny, that they perfectly describe, again, what’s going on with Reddit and us coming here to places like this, even before it happened. Because it has happened before, and it will continue to happen again.
I thought this was just going to be ‘The Enshiftification of TikTok’ again but it became so much more (and as an added bonus was made 1 month before that article.)
fuck all these people