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by largepeepee 1251 days ago
I'll add that the decline of community culture was in part due to the greed of the current leaders, like Google and Facebook.

Think the dislike button or the normalization of exploiting any data that was previously made to reduce storage pressures.

In fact many features like search seem to be performing worse now than a decade ago, because they want to extend user time for ads.

They kill an organic culture that had its own safety checks for slightly more money, and in turn make the internet more dangerous as the vacuum is filled by predators who happily fork pennies to Google to hunt new prey.