If somehow you haven't read this yet, you really really should. Ed does a better job than anybody else I've ever read at distilling exactly what it is about using modern Internet technology that's so obnoxious, and why that is. (Cory Doctorow goes into more detail, but Ed's blog post is the best summary ever.)
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Scott Francis
In response to this post“In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”
(and to @fere's point, a 42-minute read isn't *exactly* a summary, but it's shorter than Cory's book on Enshittification. :))
“Why wouldn’t people feel insane? Why wouldn’t the internet, where we’re mostly forced to live, drive most people crazy? How are we not discussing the fact that so much of the internet is riddled with poison? How are we not treating the current state of the tech industry like an industrial chemical accident? Is it because there are too many people at fault? Is it because fixing it would require us to truly interrogate the fabric of a capitalist death cult?”
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