>>4275181The word is "enshittification" and it happens on every platform that isn't essentially someone's hobby or a government honeypot like this one.
In 2007 I wanted to get on Facebook so bad, because that's where all the college girls were then, but you still needed a .edu email and I'd been graduated for years. So I got someone I knew who still worked at my old University to give me my old email address back, and I was in FB and it was beautiful. College girls posting their drunk pics all day long. Then they let old people on there for real, then they continually fucked with the algorithm to make it so you see ads for what they want you to buy 99% more than anything else, then they became so shitty that they had to buy instagram to stop it from eating their lunch, then they were taken over by bots and boomer memes, and today everything is fucking terribly prompted AI. All those college girls I friended back in 2007 are not what they used to be either.
And every platform does it, if they are driving by venture capital, the stock market, or private equity. They either become a cesspool of algorithmically driven ad revenue like FB, or they just plain peter out and die like Flickr.
