Why every website you used to love is getting worse. The decay of Google, Amazon, and Facebook are part of a larger trend.

>a monopsony, where one buyer dominates sellers

interesting new-to-me term. The idea that end users and the advertisers are both trapped on the same platform by virtue of its size. Feels like a mob who control a neighborhood of a city, entitling them to demand money for “protection.”

Internet is dead. Try to enjoy what is left and get offline!

We’ve reached the dead internet. Bots are talking to bots. Websites break when Meta products are broke. So many businesses would rather use Google or Meta products to host their business website and it’s so fucking annoying.