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I only started noticing substack URLs very recently. I haven’t even taken the time to figure out what substack is. I can’t figure out if I am late or if you are
by irrational 3y ago
I only started noticing substack URLs very recently. I haven’t even taken the time to figure out what substack is. I can’t figure out if I am late or if you are early in saying it has already jumped the shark.
- twic 3y agoI think what ftxbro is saying is that Medium and Quora have both worthless content and a horrible user experience, and people ignore them because of the horrible user experience, so their worthless content does not get shared, whereas Substack has worthless content but a pleasant user experience, so its worthless content does get shared, and he hopes that its user experience degrades, so this stops. EDIT: Which is surprising; surely a fellow traveller of the EA/LW crowd would understanding optimising for the maximal update to your prior?
- tough 3y agoI've been recently seeing the word enshittification to describe this online phenomena. I also would refer to Eternal September when we reference any kind of online community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September