[prox]

Yeah, I have been following a subreddit where people offer their new plugin for a software I use. And where it use to be like one or two a week, it’s now a daily “look at my thing I build!”

The bar for entry has been lowered, the output increased, and quality suffers.

We had something similar when the internet grew, so much blogs and then monetised blogs, getting to the good bits was (and is) difficult. We need guides and curators.

[dmkii]

100% agree with the curators part. I think this is often implicit, but we look for signals of quality, whether that's Github stars or a person we trust. I feel the sense of what is a good curator has shifted, or even the curators are overwhelmed. Similar to the enshittification paradigm: once you find a good source of curated content, let's say Substack, then it grows and needs its own curation.