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There was a window where the internet was a huge positive.
That ended 10 to 15 years ago.
Kinda coinciding with social media apps.
It's almost like corporations took over the internet, monetized it, and deployed every possible tool to convert it into an addicting advertising platform without any regulations or standards, driving up social contention, misinformation and propaganda because the more rage you can instill in the population the more "engagement" everything will get.
thats when the MBAs took over from the nerds because there was way too much money, and somehow not enough.
Remember the days when the CEO of tech/manufacturing was actually an engineer or PhD researcher. Not many companies have that nowadays.
supposedly it goes in long cycles. during boom times, sales/marketing take over to squeeze out profits and market share. during bust times, development/engineering takes over to evolve the offerings. we just had a really long boom cycle and it appears to be finally busting.
Smartphones were a bad idea. Social Media got large swaths of the population addicted to screens, increasing insomnia and anxiety. Unhealthy fads like the "girls pushing each other into eating disorders" and the whole "men are all bad" mainly spread through social media. The benefits of communication and knowledge-gathering/-spreading could have also been achieved with stationary devices. It claims to "connect" people, but made them lonelier. The loneliness pandemic is real.
The internet and commercial computer technology should have stopped developing before 2008. Since then, it's just adding to the enshittification. The newest bloatware is AI and the claim that it could "replace human workers". What's next? When will be abandon commercial computing technology for free and open source alternatives?
I mean it has to make some money at some point and that makes it a matter of time until enshittification starts.
If your social media site does not need to make any money, it can also be unskewed in information, not sell your data not advertise etc.
No interest in keeping you engaged. That was maybe the driver algorithm that fucked up modern life.
Even moot has said it's the smartphones, internet access in your pocket is just a recipe for disaster
It feels like there are few things that enshitification^TM^ doesn't impact.