I'm upset but not upset enough to go back to Insta. I quit Twitter, I deleted Deviantart, all my old Tumblr buddies left after the porn ban. I'm running out of social media sites to post on and my communities are disappearing. Did the internet feel more... lively to anyone when they were younger compared to now? Doesn't it feel like it's getting worse?
With the app gone I have one less distraction, but two of my irl 3rd places no longer exist. The book store is gone, the bar is gone. 2025 ain't lookin too fun. It's gonna be a fucking boring 365.
Osaka
Less Chinese spyware means less reverse engineering of software that harvests data and risks domestic security & intelligence breaches :)
Yes, I agree the internet was more lively back then because it wasn't centralized, it had a wild-west style quality to it. It's been sanitized and more conglomerates control a bigger piece of the pie, but that's a double-edged sword in my opinion.
AldilusRex
I get it, but they should've banned it sooner. It feels like they were sitting on their hands while everyone was building up their companies and communities on borrowed time.
It also feels like some of these sites are dying. Realistically that's probably not the case, but this is the only place so far where I haven't felt like we were bleeding users.