Matt Stegmeir
@mattsteg
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@mmasnick guilty, but the issue is mostly that something like 95% of who I engage with there isn't here (and vice-versa to an extent as well). The network effect is strong, even with Elon trying to kill it.
@taylorlorenz a bold move.
@motomatters more that span centuries since average lifespan has climbed to well over a half-century. But this is a relatively recent shift as pre-50s the global average life expectancy was under 50.
@BenS the power of normalization!
@lauren We've (in broad brush terms) moved from services working to do the best job of giving you what you want/need, to services working to provide quality recommendations that are even better than you expected, to services finding out how much of what THEY want they can fit in there. And that's before even touching on privacy ussues.
@lauren it's pretty clear that the quality and nature of online services has transformed pretty drastically (and in many negatively) from the initial .com boom commercialization where the focus was (to a much larger extent) on solving actual user problems in order to establish a foothold.
@lauren it existed and grew for decades before really being successfully monetized.
That wouldn't have magically changed.
And it wasn't "profitability" that made it structurally worse, it was that the core of widespread profitability was making end-users the product (and thus massive amounts of effort fundamentally directed at making things worse for the end user)
@lauren the Internet was generally quite wonderful before it was profitable.