it’s never just ads or subscriptions, it’s a shitty integrated fucking garbage algoritm driven with content you don’t want to see shown to you, the interface is ALWAYS shittier and worse, no explanation, just that it looks ‘modern’
i’m so fucking sick of it lads
this is not pooppost but idc
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-despise-tiktok-ification-social-media/ - Brad R. Edwards
“Enshittification of the Internet” - By Cary Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
That article from Doctorow does such an amazing job of explaining it and breaking it down. It just made it so painfully obvious that I’m disappointed that I didn’t see the pattern on my own.