Zos_Kia

I don’t think it’s useful or healthy to see a hobby as being enshittified because it has shit content. Even the example of video gaming in the OP is pretty exaggerated. You could play games, or read books, from now until the day you die, without ever stumbling on a slop game or book.

Carefully choosing what you consume is part of the hobby and nobody can force you to accept sub par content.

Yeah for me it’s singing. You can destroy society all you want, it’s not gonna stop me from standing up and belting out some tunes.

Yeah all air is steamed air

What a coincidence I was just listening to the smashing pumpkins on the way home

When my uncle first got the internet I went and filled a few floppies with midi files. Nirvana, metallica, a bunch of other bands I’d never heard of. Although they were just midi files, it really felt like I was cheating something. Plus I could plop them in guitar pro and get approximate tabs to learn the songs.

Then when we got it at home I mostly used AOL chat rooms. I also found out I had a fax software with the modem so for a while my friend and I used to send faxes to each other. Just one Word page with silly bitmaps and word art, it was really cool.

I think that’s the right way to see it. Somewhere there’s a ten year old kid making 6-7 brain rot games, and when that creativity matures everybody’s gonna piss their pants at the new genius. It’s well worth it to endure the initial wave of slop.

It reminds me of when the Kindle became popular and the market was inundated with shit 99c novels. How many great authors of today self published their bad first effort at the time?

It would be stupid for them to keep it up. I don’t understand the point of this kind of thread. You don’t mix things up, and you don’t mix your illegal (though totally legitimate) activism with your day to day communication tools. It’s just a reckless thing to do and they’d be stupid to not draw the line.

It’s not entirely transparent though. It’s a paper loss in terms of cash but they did have to give the stock. At their crazy valuations, even 1% is a big deal.

And yet they did and he we are commenting on imaginary actions by imaginary people

I didn’t wanna claim it when I wasn’t sure of the source but yeah that’s what I remember too

And even the fifty billions may be inflated, as it is “annualized” revenue which can mean “we took a period of peak usage and generalized it to a year”