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Optimization is the natural path of all things commercial. When the Internet was young it was more experimental as a whole and that was fun for people. Computing is still experimental but the experimentation isn't obvious as it was back then. Unfortunately that means adventure finding you across your computer screen doesn't happen as often. You either need to look for it around the fringes or look beyond the monitor.
Turning your service to shit to extract the most money from your “users” at the expense of usability is the end result of commercialisation in every instance that has ever existed so far during capitalism.
Even if it destroys the product, this will not stop capitalists ruining it in the name of a few extra dollars/currency in the short term.
Good observation. Your options are to reduce your reliance on such services or become increasingly mad at the world. I think the former is more attractive.
The solution to things going wrong and getting worse is performative smug apathy. Get schwifty.
Sir this is a Wendy's
You're not doing a very good job at that "not becoming increasingly mad" thing you were sermonizing about.
I’m already one step ahead because I DO reduce my reliance on anything commercial.
Relying on capitalist companies for anything long-lasting or worthwhile is foolish.
That's an enshittified way of describing enshittification.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Not really. Did you read the rest of my message?
Yes. I didn't see anything worth commenting on, then or now.
Then why are you here?
Because you are not the sum of this site, or of the universe.
Your very cool tryhard apathy performance isn't new to me or impressive. If you're so awesome touching grass and ignoring systemic problems, keep doing that away from here. Please.
I tried to make an optimistic point about the Internet not being the only interesting part of life and you unwarranted used it as a platform to complain about capitalism. Who's a tryhard?
You are.
You sermonized about how cool apathy is and how people that express frustration with bad things need to go outside, and yet here you are. Still.
Go outside. Be very cool and apathetic there. I look forward to congratulating you in your absence.
I'm on a plane rn 😬
Don't go!
You're such a very important uncaring hustlegrinder Vincent Adultman doing a business that you're going to win a last word game!
I am your worst nightmare! I am grind!
Almost there! Show how much you care about performative apathy!
I'm not apathetic and don't know where you got that impression friend!!!!
No shit. Your sermons about how people need to stop caring about things being bad and getting worse definitely rung hollow.
Dodge all the labels you like friend but no amount of exclamation marks is making you any less transparent!!!!
For real though, the subject of this thread is whether the Internet is or isn't fun anymore it doesn't mention or allude to enshittification and ignoring the topic of the thread by forcing that context is pretty mean. I know you don't like capitalism but do you expect people to be receptive to what you have to say when you detail them and don't care about what they have to say?
It does, even if you wish it didn't. Lots of other people felt the same way in the comments even if you don't like that.
On the other hand, your apathy sermon offers nothing to that person. It's not just a thought-terminating cliche. It's clearly failed you as well because you're still here and you're still posting.
I still don't get why you think it's apathetic or doesn't offer anything. All I'm saying is you have to change with the world and the world isn't the Internet
If it's that simple and that easy,
and work those hustlegrindy miracles! Concern trolling people here with your not-apathy sermons about the coolness of apathy is wasting your precious hustlegrindy time! Change the world already!
Or better yet, don't. Stay here and keep posting about how you're totally not preaching the virtues of apathy while preaching the virtues of apathy. That's probably better than any version of improving the world that you in particular have in mind.
So continue. Keep telling me how much you don't care about not caring while skydiving and doing crossfit while securing the Jones account and selling the rights to your exciting new blockchain-based startup.
Ok I'm home now my final thoughts are you've massively projected your world view upon the kind of person I actually am and some day you'll learn that arguing on the Internet doesn't solve anything!
What are you still doing here then, exactly?
You are very important and must continue providing updates about your very important dynamic Vincent Adultman lifestyle where you're hustlegrinding and on a mission to change the world.
For a lot of people, there's nothing more fun and creative than an unsolved problem.
Monetization/commercialization/organization of the Internet was a super complex problem for a lot of business trying to make it big, and it made for a beautiful shitshow.
But now that the business problem is approaching solution, it's losing that fun and creativity.