[morkalork]

Myspace and LiveJournal died when Facebook killed them. Facebook died when our boomer parents joined and killed all the fun. So we went to Instagram. Which died after everyone started caring about curating an image of themselves and stopped posting authentically. Now it's all influencers and suggested content. Tumblr died when they nuked the racy content. Reddit is the eternal September on steroids at best and manipulated narratives and bots at worst. I don't watch YouTube but from the comments that's what it appears like to me as an outsider. Google search has clearly lost the war against spam so badly that lay people are talking about it. Sadbeans all around.

Edit: and I know tiktok jumped the shark when it went from an app my gen-x colleagues complained about their tweens spending too much time on, to my older SIL, a teacher, sending me recipe recommendations she saw on there.

[agumonkey]

I read this as a deep lesson about human societies and rituals evolution (and how scale in space and time changes the nature of things).

[beauzero]

It wasn't the boomer parents killing the fun. They have more money so the ads came, the addiction cycle was changed to accommodate that potential revenue, and it didn't/doesn't appeal to anyone from GenX younger anymore.

[I_Am_Nous]

I was just reading about how Temu is finding their main market is older women. The same demographic targeted by most infomercials...so now they have to choose to embrace that or branch out. The latter is potentially expensive, while the former is just extracting more value out of customers they already attract. It's no surprise corps commonly choose the "easier" path of raising rent on the people who willingly chose to become their market.

[MeImCounting]

Youtube is full of seemingly endless high quality, meaningful content. Its just also got lots of corporate BS as well and the algorithm really does try to push the corporate BS. I have a feeling other sites are like this as well. I think alot of the dissatisfaction in "modern internet" is that people expect their search engine or "feed" to give them the good stuff instead of having to go out and curate stuff themselves.

As an example of great youtube content check out the channels Asianometry and The Thought Emporium. There are countless other but those two have been some of my favorites for quite a while now.

[paduc]

The great channels of today will decay if they become popular.

It’s all fueled by greed, and it’s not a judgement. All humans a greedy. It comes from survival instincts.