[jaredcwhite]

I don't fully understand the point of the article, but there's my take anyway. ;-)

I pay for YouTube Premium so I don't get any ads on YouTube. And I don't really care about the (crappy) algorithm because I only watch what I subscribe to.

I hope Twitter's utility will similarly increase as they pivot to (a) premium paid services, and (b) open protocols via BlueSky.

Glass is a new social media photography app for iOS that feels a lot like early Instagram, but it's a paid service with no ads.

So yeah, perhaps it's the end of social media as we knew it…but that's fine because new and existing services will adapt to provide people premium experiences (for a fee of course).

Remember, we are the internet. If we don't like what it is, we can build something better.

[rnd0]

>Back in my day, we made mods for fun, and then we used the skills we learned to get jobs doing something corporate.

No, actually, we can't. By "we", of course, I mean garden-variety consumers.

The legal, financial, and social barriers to entry are far too high.

Anyone attempting to make the next youtube would be priced out of existance, anyone trying to make another reddit would be reduced to a smouldering crater by the time the lawsuits hit them, assuming that paypal doesn't force them to do an onlyfans first.

It's not 2003 (when 4chan started) any more. The internet game is fixed, rigged and it will only become more restrictive, not less.

Fuckerberg pulled the ladder up after him; there's not gonna be another movement -at least not coming from the internet.