[PaulHoule]

I see it as part of a larger issue of "platform rot" or "enshittification". I deleted my Reddit account a long long time ago, but I've been around long enough to see AOL instant messenger be a thing, and then MSN instant messenger a thing, and then there were 11+ different messaging apps from Google, then there was Skype, then there was Skype for business, then there was Facebook messenger, then there was Whatsapp, then there was Discord.

This is not a story of progress but rather a treadmill. The story is "try platform Y, it's like platform X was a few years ago before platform X got broken", and then you move to platform Y, and then platform Y rots.

People don't seem all that amazed that a Verizon customer can call a T-Mobile customer or that a iPhone user can call an Android user but the idea that communication apps or social media apps could interoperate is like science fiction or nuclear fusion or communism or something.

Since what happened to Twitter I think a lot of people are in an inflamed state and I think other "platforms" have gotten the wrong message and decided to follow Musk's playbook of accelerating enshittification. For years Reddit has insulted our intelligence by putting a banner at the top of their mobile website saying "download our crapp for a better (worse) experience" and if you tried it you got exactly what you'd expect to get. Reddit has some good subreddits but it takes a huge amount of cognitive effort to see content between the ads. The third-party cutoff will force people to wade through that crapp.