OTOH, yes.

However, the person is also sufficiently self-aware to share their thought process (and candid about its shortsightedness).

To me, that made it worth reading (even though it has a sad message).

How did you realize you were shadowbanned?

I'm curious because I sometimes wonder, if that happened to me, would it affect the way in which I engage with this website?

FWIW, I often lurk, but sometimes engage (like right now). Perhaps it could happen to me and I would not realize it for a while...

I appreciate you building this and putting it on github -- I used it to build a simple offline gallery viewer.

Thank You For Making And Sharing!

I think you're failing to recognize that we essentially live in a post-Truth world. Two opposite statements can be uttered by the same person on the same day, and it won't matter.

Your assessment is spot-on! These entities have been on shaky ground for a while, and AI is a convenient scapegoat for justifying their unavoidable downsizing.

this sounds like generic AI comment without any input into conversation

Does your comment pass that bar?

Your comment made me think of something: this might be Meta buying it to kill it off.

Kill off what? Anybody can vibe code it

They saw a social network full of bots and didn't want the competition.

Thank you for articulating this point!

I've tried self-hosting, but found it underwhelming at the second category.

"Bobby Tables" in github

edit: can't omit the obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/327/

Not really. Bobby tables is fixable with prepared statements and things like that. Prompt injection has mitigations.

> AI is a threat to the “enshittification economy” because it lets us route around it.

This is prescient -- I wonder if the Big Tech entities see it this way. Maybe, even if they do, they're 100% committed to speedrunning the current late-stage-cap wave, and therefore unable to do anything about it.

They are not a single thing.

Google has a good model in the form of Gemini and they might figure they can win the AI race and if the web dies, the web dies. YouTube will still stick around.

Facebook is not going to win the AI race with low I.Q. Llama but Zuck believed their business was cooked around the time it became a real business because their users would eventually age out and get tired of it. If I was him I'd be investing in anything that isn't cybernetic let it be gold bars or MMA studios.

Microsoft? They bought Activision for $69 billion. I just can't explain their behavior rationally but they could do worse than their strategy of "put ChatGPT in front of laggards and hope that some of them rise to the challenge and become slop producers."

Amazon is really a bricks-and-mortar play which has the freedom to invest in bricks-and-mortar because investors don't think they are a bricks-and-mortar play.

Netflix? They're cooked as is all of Hollywood. Hollywood's gatekeeping-industrial strategy of producing as few franchise as possible will crack someday and our media market may wind up looking more like Japan, where somebody can write a low-rent light novel like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbed_in_a_Backwater_Dun...

and J.C. Staff makes a terrible anime that convinces 20k Otaku to drop $150 on the light novels and another $150 on the manga (sorry, no way you can make a balanced game based on that premise!) and the cost structure is such that it is profitable.

I'm with you. I thought the title captured and represented the OG article accurately.

What's going on?