John

I tend to agree. I simply don’t like the short form content. I never did. When twitter launched, I didn’t understand it, and I still don’t. It doesn’t facilitate conversation whatsoever. It’s just shitposting and one-liners and toxicity. We really lost something special when we moved from forums to shorter and shorter content platforms.

“Better” means extracting as much data and value from users as possible to appease the Capitalist machine. What users want or need is irrelevant.

bsky is just another VC-funded corpo platform. The initial wave of Libs who moved over gave it some gas, but ultimately, it’s just another toxic, bland platform like all the others.

I’ll be honest, modern internet/platforms are toxic and alienating as fuck. I don’t connect with anybody anymore. Are we even conversing with humans?

Internet back in the 2000s was so fucking fun and I made connections all the time on forums and stuff. Nowadays? Ehh… never.