[cmsonger]

"untethered" is right for me.

I'm backing the effort by not even landing on reddit. And it's odd. I have found reddit to be helpful over the (now many) years.

I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism destroys social media for me by causing the business to make it unpalatable to me. Oh well. I'm sure I'll survive without it.

[davidgerard]

"enshittification", per Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

an instance of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall

[cmsonger]

Ha! Great link.

I legitimately think it's possible that a properly managed "for the profit of the investors" social media company will always follow this path.

It's why I think the right future for social media is non-profit. None of this is amazing technology anymore. This would also have the benefit that it would take the question of "how do we avoid doing harm while still making profit off the table." Could write a statement of values and intent that legitimately puts well being of users and society ahead of everything else. (Which no for-profit with externally raised capital is able to do today.)