Enshittification.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media. (Via pluralistic.net.)

Prodigy, geocities, collegeclub.com, MySpace, Friendster, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter. More besides. More next. And if one were to get big enough, like Facebook, this cycle doesn’t stop, it just sort of happens all at the same time without interruptions in service. All while we diaspora from site to site hoping there’s at least one more goddamned Diaryland Andrew out there who gives a fuck about the little universe they created and tempted human beings to set up their lives in.

Replace Diaryland Andrew with Antville.org? 🤔