We traded blogs for black boxes, now we’re paying for it
We traded blogs for black boxes, now we’re paying for it 09/09/2025 Come listen to the “old man yelling at clouds” in me for a bit. tl;dr: The internet is changing for the worse (or getting ‘enshittified’). In this post, I write about the effects of algorithms on the public discourse to illustrate a greater point on the enshittification of the internet. Then, I offer my personal notes and curated resources to guide you on your personal internet deshittification journey. I miss the old internet, and I don’t mean the slow dial-up internet. No, I miss the internet specifically before it collapsed into a single, endless feed that we access through proprietary apps (now with AI slop!). I miss how it was a network that’s both human, and humane. Back when it wasn’t (primarily, at…
