> Part of the reason why Diaryland died was that Smales could never figure out how to translate the site's pool of users into actual profit. Here's the instruc

> Part of the reason why Diaryland died was that Smales could never figure out how to translate the site's pool of users into actual profit. Here's the instruction manual used by Facebook, Twitter, and everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification I'm impressed that Diaryland didn't decide to grind up its users and turn them into money. For that reason alone, it is immediately (and probably permanently) superior to Facebook and Xitter.