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elle
@riotgoools
i have a lot of feelings but i'm on no sleep and since i'm casting in this channel i'll keep it on topic: i've been posting more doomer content lately even tho i'd rather focus on good things. but now i expect the enshittification of the web to accelerate. the democrats aren't really better for the web but they are less distracting. when the firehose of trump's shitshow turns on again in january, many will be too distracted daily like last time to do productive things to prevent further enshittifying. it's no coincidence the death date of the internet is often cited as 2016/2017. now he has elon as a sidekick too, so it will be doubly as annoying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not sure what that means for this channel. "A channel for Very Internet Persons to discuss net culture, intermedia, and having fun online." seems frivolous now as i'm not sure online will be very fun for a while and i'll have to spend more time offline working to insulate my loved ones from the "hardship" that elon is promising. i hope i'm wrong tho
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Clarify what you mean when you say Trump in power would result in more enshittification? Not sure how those are connected.
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elle
@riotgoools
i'm using enshittification here in more of a general sense of the effects doctorow's enshittification is about platform lock-in and the decay of quality/usability. eg. social app or search engine pivots to algo slop to better profit, degrading user's ability to see/do what they want obv the web is not a platform in this sense. but trump in power combined with his extreme attention seeking causes an ai slop-like effect on the web "flooding the zone with shit" as bannon himself called it. the goal of this strat is to bait, hook, and wear ppl out (ie. enshittification pattern.) drown out everything else. i think one overdominating and unrelenting annoying slop noise decays the quality of the web. the way to counter this decay is lots of ppl actively adding more good to the web. ofc i can upload whenever i want but, like ig, what's the point if it's just drowned out by shein ads and shrimp jesus and my friends can't see it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sry if this is disconnected. i still haven't slept and i'm out of space
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
I think information wars are gonna be a fact of life from now on regardless of who’s in office 😅 but fortunately the web3 internet is looking bright and we’re due to have some incredibly powerful cryptographic primitives at our disposal to help navigate this. The web is a huge place and it’s still ultimately up to us to decide what we pay attention to. All the more we need passionate people like you to curate cozy corners and keep the nostalgia alive and well. Sleep tight 🙂
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elle
@riotgoools
yeah information warfare is the normal state of things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i'm basically just saying that trump and elon are expert air-suckers. bc they are now effectively the most powerful man and richest man power couple, all attention will be fixated on what they do and it will be inescapable on the web. they will take advantage of ppl's attention bc that's how they control ppl there are lots of annoying and terrible things about biden but at least i didn't have to see or hear him every single day and that gave me some space to think and dream. unlike with trump last time around and probably this time too (╥_╥) i had to leave the web for trump's previous 4 years bc it was so annoying and i still had to hear about him every day! (that's why i was still using jquery when i came back in 2020/21 (๑>ᴗ<๑))
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Network effects gonna network effect. I personally don’t mind hearing what those two will be up to, but the level of information intake is definitely gonna be a balance all of us will have to figure out 😛
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elle
@riotgoools
i just woke up and realized i left out a more specific concern in my response: trump has a pattern of nepotism, threatening to shut down unfavorable media, and promoting things that butter him up (see trump silos like newsmax and truth – his own versions of things that weren't nice to him) elon says he wants x to become the everything app of america like wechat in china, creating a single point of access to the internet for the majority of ppl. but also in daily life, like paying for things. convenient but locked-in dependence i think trump in power is the best chance elon has to create this super app and the way to do it is to sell the president on it as a trump zone flooder this would be the ultimate enshittocene. users locked into an app bc they depend on it for daily existence. a government sponsored black box where users can be data harvested and manipulated with filtered slop. this would become the sole internet for many ppl and that would be a shame idk, i'm just going on what they've done/said
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