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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those were the days! You would find a blogger you liked and then click through their blogroll and check out other blogs. It really was a much smaller universe back then, and in many ways more raw and intimate than today's influencers and curated feeds.[/quote]

I definitely found the blogs more interesting back then. Cory Doctorow talks about the "enshittification cycle" of social media. First the platforms draw users by legitimately giving them something good. Once the users are locked in, they draw in businesses by giving them access to the users. This makes the experience somewhat worse for the users, but where are they going to go? Once the businesses are locked in, the platforms makes decisions that extract more money from businesses and sometimes users; making the experience worse for both, but profitable for shareholders - because where else are the users or businesses going to go?

It's hard to remember, but part of the reason that blogs went by the wayside is that Facebook and Twitter were kind of fun and it was easy to see what all of your friends were up to and pretty easy to find new, interesting voices. Now it's all such a f'ing wasteland. [/quote]

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