I recently had to explain to some Gen-Z folks what things were like ~12 years ago when I worked for Twitter. Their initial reaction was as if I said "Yeah I wor

I recently had to explain to some Gen-Z folks what things were like ~12 years ago when I worked for Twitter. Their initial reaction was as if I said "Yeah I worked for the Galactic Empire on the Deathstar project a while back". It was truly amazing that one could start / join a conversation with so many relevant and insightful folks (depends on the community; there was always useless noise). I remember trying to learn Erlang a bit and whenever I'd tweet something about it, Joe Armstrong himself would often start a short thread with me to resolve my misunderstanding. I think the term "enshittification" really covers the process well [0] to explain what happened. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification