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?
The web sucks honestly. everyone is either buying, selling, or being sold. The foundations of the web, open information sharing and interconnected servers, is collapsing behind paywalls and corporate greed. You can’t even have a homepage or hobby site any more as the biggest indexer is drowning in a trash ocean of generated seo-honed content.
There are some beacons of hope to be found still, but mostly I’m disgusted to see how the larger ecosystem has evolved.