@siderea @danluu I dunno, especially with the majority...

@siderea @danluu I dunno, especially with the majority of internet traffic being consolidated across like 10 domains I don’t feel like that same level of diversity, of creativity, of authentic sets of folks posting exists to the same degree it did even a decade ago.

I feel like this consolidation has vastly decreased the quality of the independent web as we know it. It is significantly less interesting than it was as I remember it before consolidation

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@Darriengineer This reads like one of these "Kids these days..."-posts, but it still feels correct.
I think what @siderea meant was that the old content is still there. What you're saying is that new content of the same quality isn't being produced.
@danluu

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

@Darriengineer Oh I can believe it. Part of the problem is even if there is exactly as much quality new content being generated, it's lost in an ever-increasing flood of sewage.

But I also think people who would otherwise be inclined to generate quality new content are less likely to do so in the context of an ever-increasing flood of sewage. For a variety of reasons.

@danluu

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