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Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed in the world that has changed the business case of these sites?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (18 children)

This is the enshittification of the Internet. Cory Doctorow wrote about it here: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys and it explains why this was always going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I dunno. If the general trend is to move toward the fediverse then things might actually get better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meta has already expressed interest in the fediverse. It's going to be up to everyone who likes it to defederate from every corporate instance.
There are no good corporate actors

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know it off the top of my head, but I’ve seen it mentioned elsewhere that over on Mastodon, a large number of instances have banded together to collectively block all Meta owned instances, and publish a list of them and so on.

I think convenient-to-add, publicly viewable blocklists will be a thing on here sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You're telling me I can just block Meta/Facebook altogether here in the Fediverse?