NGL I am desensitised to bad news. But I admit that I have been ragebaited, which doesn’t serve me but the algorithm and Palantir. I will avoid visiting the US for the foreseeable future even if Trump leaves…

It was shit back then, and the dawn of enshittification.

Interesting inference, the meme implies that if society was thriving then it wouldn’t be a nightmare machine.

Is that honestly true? If most software on people’s devices was FOSS and the world was like 20-30 years ago, would it have the same magic of the past?

I’m curious how much or it is form factor and the addiction that goes along with it.

Personally I think it would be very different. Sometimes I get lost in an obsession over a random topic, I go to wikis instead or doomscrolling. I would imagine that smartphones in a good world would mostly be that.

Oh and games that aren’t trying to be gacha

Cool