Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - eviltoast

This has probably been posted already, but this article came to mind when reddit entered its death spiral. An interesting observation on the rise and fall of social media.

  • NotaCat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This article is filled with good lines. I particularly liked this visual describing the communities and audiences built by artists being taken over and destroyed by Musk:

    “You have to be very famous to be safe from the effects of your biggest microphone being crammed up a rich white man’s ass and set to reverb. I am certainly not. Few of us are.”