{"id":96723,"date":"2025-07-22T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96723"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:59:00","slug":"the-internet-keeps-getting-worse-lets-talk-about-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/the-internet-keeps-getting-worse-lets-talk-about-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet keeps getting worse. Let&#8217;s talk about why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcW9IB5e3_E?si=zH9y69cnUvQvO2G1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jared Henderson<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p>Why do major online platforms keep getting worse? Cory Doctorow&#8217;s work helps us understand the pattern of growth, decline, and eventual demise. <\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Timestamps<br \/>\n00:00 Beginning<br \/>\n00:51 How Platforms Die<br \/>\n08:29 The Death of a Platform (From the Inside)<br \/>\n12:14 Ads, Everywhere<br \/>\n14:47 Yes, I Make Money from Ads<br \/>\n16:32 Bots<br \/>\n22:04 The Internet We Need<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Links<br \/>\nI run a book club on Substack! Join here: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaredhenderson.substack.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/jaredhenderson.substack.com<\/a><br \/>\nFollow me on X\/Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jhendersonYT\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/jhendersonYT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Read (and listen) to more from Cory Doctorow<br \/>\n&#8220;Tiktok&#8217;s enshittification&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkw1YW9xejhpLWY0Y0loQmJzem9fUkZFZmpRQXxBQ3Jtc0tsSXBMNzNCV0VqYng2WUtfSW9tcml5MVZ0Vi1ESjNCb3VWVmdzVGYzeVVuT2RFb1BuYjIwQmlIQkkydzUyLUZuVGNvc1RxRDlWY1NjRTBlUkpCWjJsaGFnMVRzbHJqWTUxNHh3MmtaVkFGajF5SHZkcw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fpluralistic.net%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fpotemkin-ai%2F%23hey-guys&#038;v=YcW9IB5e3_E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/po&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nHow Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It:    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittificati&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nAn Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet&#8217;s Ensh*ttification:    \u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4\" target=\"_blank\"> DEF CON 31 &#8211; An Audacious Plan to Halt the&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/jaredhenderson\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/jaredhenderson<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Henderson Published 16 Jul 2025 Why do major online platforms keep getting worse? Cory Doctorow&#8217;s work helps us understand the pattern of growth, decline, and eventual demise. \u2192 Timestamps 00:00 Beginning 00:51 How Platforms Die 08:29 The Death of a Platform (From the Inside) 12:14 Ads, Everywhere 14:47 Yes, I Make Money from Ads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,15],"tags":[97,833,1506,484,1563,391,481],"class_list":["post-96723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-amazon","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-competition","tag-enshittification","tag-facebook","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pa3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96724,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96723\/revisions\/96724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}