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Fun reading on why our current digital media model deserves to die, even if the collapse also sucks for us:
"This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle." (Pardon Doctorow's French.)
@MLClark It's cool to see a cultural shift toward searching for "alternatives" to certain sites, because it's getting pretty close to people asking the question of what they want from these spaces in the first place.
It always reminds me of what happened when I was hooked on RuneScape. The game slowly filled with microtransactions and became so different that the company accidentally weaned me off the game. It was no longer what I signed up for. But the habit itself was hard to break,.