Not just the levels, it was the reversal of an upwards trend. The web was progressively richer, with more high-quality paywall-free content being written every day and connected through links, on topics you didn't know you were interested in.
As the walled garden platforms took over, a sense of agency was also diminished. Active exploration on the terms of readers and writers was replaced by passive consumption served by recsys algorithms. From a web of knowledge and opinion to engagement farming.
There’s a very funny wisecrack about higher ed here that probably belongs in @proptermalone.bsky.social’s Festivus purposefully obtuse flame war thread
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