That Whole #Enshitification Thing Dept:
"...And, you know, long before we had the folly of Elon Musk, we had the folly of Mark Zuckerberg, who was able to do these really reckless things. And maybe he wouldn't have been able to do it if his board had been there going like, Wait, what are you doing? No, you're eating the seed corn. Stop it."
#CoryDoctorow

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-1-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-on-the-media

Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad | On the Media | WNYC Studios

When did the internet start getting worse?

WNYC Studios
...Had , a short bit ago , some unfortunately highly toxic revelatory exposure about what's going on currently bts at #YouTube. Unfortunate because we'd taken a long time to arrive at just how cool YouTube could actually be and unlike #Twitter - which literally took about a day to get over leaving, we are genuinely fond of our many #YouTube friends because many more of them are friends in real life. #Google of course would have been remiss to not have noticed this and so #TheSqueeze has begun