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mostly true - but youtube has experimented with forcing a "loading state" for ad block users that was the same duration as the ads they would have watched. https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1l7b3c8/strange_lo...
Is it possible that different regions have different ad experiences? I've not seen a single ad nor hint of one in a long time using the Brave browser on both android and desktop. Primarily in Europe.
What happened was the set of available moves and rewards has incrementally changed. What has not changed is that nerds are humans, and humans are terrible at resisting increases in status, power, wealth, etc. If the glorified nerds of the past had been offered the same roads to status and power, they would have taken them. This reminds me of the way people think of the olden days when stuff was made of real wood and…
It's the equivalent of the cycle of life: birth, maturity, decay, and death.
What happened was the set of available moves and rewards has incrementally changed. What has not changed is that nerds are humans, and humans are terrible at resisting increases in status, power, wealth, etc. If the glorified nerds of the past had been offered the same roads to status and power, they would have taken them. This reminds me of the way people think of the olden days when stuff was made of real wood and…
Humans are good at resisting things outside their comfort zones. Strong incentives select for people who don't have to leave their comfort zones to pursue them. Most of the nerds I knew when I was young were nerds because they valued their interests more than the "boring mundane stuff" around wealth, status, and power. Some of them changed their minds later, but most of them didn't. Once you start seeing yourself as…
I respect Moxie a lot and it greatly diminishes my opinion of him that he agreed to be part of this. I hope he got paid a lot for this, and that he’s plowing the money back into something worthwhile.
What happened was the set of available moves and rewards has incrementally changed. What has not changed is that nerds are humans, and humans are terrible at resisting increases in status, power, wealth, etc. If the glorified nerds of the past had been offered the same roads to status and power, they would have taken them. This reminds me of the way people think of the olden days when stuff was made of real wood and…
It's even simpler than that IMO. There are still nerds creating things out of love for creating something useful and clean, but as soon as it becomes successful, the smell of (potential) money attracts parasites, and they will eventually enshittificate the clean and useful thing if they get the chance, as they do with everything else. It's the equivalent of the cycle of life: birth, maturity, decay, and death.
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It's even simpler than that IMO. There are still nerds creating things out of love for creating something useful and clean, but as soon as it becomes successful, the smell of (potential) money attracts parasites, and they will eventually enshittificate the clean and useful thing if they get the chance, as they do with everything else. It's the equivalent of the cycle of life: birth, maturity, decay, and death.
Enshittification can only happen in case of the centralized architecture like one in Twitter, Facebook and co. It's not happening in Mastodon or Matrix - and this is where the nerds are.
- Nerds build something nice
- They can't touch us here
- Stop touching us! I'm leaving!
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Enshittification can only happen in case of the centralized architecture like one in Twitter, Facebook and co. It's not happening in Mastodon or Matrix - and this is where the nerds are.
Counter example: The Internet - Nerds build something nice - They can't touch us here - Stop touching us! I'm leaving!