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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Online platforms systematically degrade by prioritizing business customers and extracting value, turning user-focused services into monetized, degraded products in a predictable three-stage process.
fromBitcoin Magazine
1 month ago

A Response To Sir Tim Berners-Lee: We Can Fix The Web Without Regulation

I agree with Berners-Lee's diagnosis. But regulation is not the cure. The web's decline is not merely a design failure; it is also an economic one. Design choices follow incentives, and those incentives have been distorted by fiat money and the advertising model it props up. Cheap credit from the fiat-fuelled venture capital system pushed Silicon Valley away from hacker-led engineering and toward surveillance-driven profit extraction.
Web design
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