Ezra Klein said something about this once that really hit for me. In short, he said he knows a lot of tech people and thinks they really care about journalism, the arts, etc. But, when push comes to shove, they care more about being the one who generates the most revenue. - ThreadSky

zachweinersmith.bsky.social • 90 days ago

Ezra Klein said something about this once that really hit for me. In short, he said he knows a lot of tech people and thinks they really care about journalism, the arts, etc. But, when push comes to shove, they care more about being the one who generates the most revenue.

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zachweinersmith.bsky.social•90 days ago

So, you can weigh up how cool you look via:

A) Trying to build a platform that makes things better
B) Winning the battle for the largest network, and keeping all traffic on that network

Guess which gets you higher status at a conference?

caffeinelab.net•90 days ago

The sad part is that I was in the Silicon Valley in the 00's, and everyone wanted to build open platforms that make things better. Even Google was embracing open standards and interoperability.

Now the assholes have won.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think if I got to this idea a little early it wasn't because of prescience -- it's just that the damage hit artists before it hit regular people.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•90 days ago

Anyway the point is that wide-leg jeans were kinda embarrassing

gmkgoat.bsky.social•90 days ago

They're cool, actually.

errorbar.bsky.social•90 days ago

Honestly I feel like the jeans were the least bad of these 4 things.

bartlebooth.bsky.social•90 days ago

Aren’t they coming back now?

kernelleak.bsky.social•90 days ago

Not everything that comes back is a positive - i.e. zombies, measles, fascism, ...

oceankeltoi.bsky.social•90 days ago

everything else you said is just correct, but on this we disagree.

orbmonky.bsky.social•87 days ago

Old millennial yelling at clouds here, but the message of the comic is on point and I'll die before they take my jincos.

d3macdon.bsky.social•90 days ago

I first noticed things getting less functional when all of our happy local licences for industrial equipment (non destructive testing software in this case) suddenly all moved to cloud based subscriptions all at once. Circa 2018 or so. Then COVID, Oye...

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think covid was the cover for a lot of changes. In some cases this was probably good, but it also allowed for longterm negative trends to be accelerated

pangurban.bsky.social•90 days ago

@bruces.bsky.social 'Whatever happens to musicians...'

bratmon.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think a lot of that is driven by the fact that social media sites are so network-effect-driven that being anything but the top couple sites in your niche makes you completely irrelevant.

bratmon.bsky.social•90 days ago

There are a lot of people who don't go in trying to get the most users, but everyone eventually figures out that "getting the most users" and "having any community at all" are different names for the same concept.

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