> Many people go online to find a sense of belonging and community, and in the right circumstances, they can find it while they may struggle to do so offline.
I understand it’s true, but it doesn’t apply to me. I find it sad that people struggle to get a sense of belonging offline and have to resort to ersatz communities like Reddit, which commodify the users’ identities and are generally low trust.
Reading that line puts a flicker in my mind, a thought that I might be an “enshittification accelerationist” when it comes to Reddit (Facebook too). Let it kill itself, because it’s not that good anyway.
I was a fairly avid user of Reddit as a late teen / early 20’s person, when I was forming my identity. But now I’m done doing that, and I find Reddit overall to be of low value, especially now that LLMs have scraped most of the good stuff.
> Many people go online to find a sense of belonging and community, and in the right circumstances, they can find it while they may struggle to do so offline.
I understand it’s true, but it doesn’t apply to me. I find it sad that people struggle to get a sense of belonging offline and have to resort to ersatz communities like Reddit, which commodify the users’ identities and are generally low trust.
Reading that line puts a flicker in my mind, a thought that I might be an “enshittification accelerationist” when it comes to Reddit (Facebook too). Let it kill itself, because it’s not that good anyway.
I was a fairly avid user of Reddit as a late teen / early 20’s person, when I was forming my identity. But now I’m done doing that, and I find Reddit overall to be of low value, especially now that LLMs have scraped most of the good stuff.