From fastcompany on reddit…

Even before chatgpt and its ai rivals came along, the internet had been gradually losing its soul. Stal- warts of the handcrafted internet, such as Tumbler and blogs, have been in decline for years. X has failed to stomp out misinformation spread by Russian botfarms. Facebook having lost faith in the notion that updates from friends are enough to keep us clicking, now stuffs our feeds with algorithmically selected posts from groups we never asked to follow. Tiktok has been an addiction machine all along.

Fb… since 2021