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James's avatar

Have you seen the Distributist's latest YouTube stream? If not, I'd recommend watching it. He touches on precisely this subject around halfway through (although I recommend watching all of it at 1.5x). It's a fascinating and pertinent topic and one that deserves more attention. I hope more people see this article.

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Plebe de Maistre's avatar

X is rather putrid now and I look for Substack as an alternative for actual expression, not just sh;t-posting

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Ponti Min's avatar

X has always been crap at expressing anything thoughtful, due to its size limitations.

Substack is much better for long test posts. Whether that will change i don't know.

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N of 1's avatar

“Webshite” good one 😁

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Tom Swift's avatar

I agree with this completely. The cultural changes resulting from the increasing predominance of short form video will be seen by future historians as a major cause of the downfall of our civilization. We must fight for long form culture on Substack as hard as possible! Resist digital involution!

https://swiftenterprises.substack.com/p/digital-involution

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The 13th Grade's avatar

Agree, not a fan of the reels

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JS.Hardy's avatar

I've been wanting someone who knows more about tech history than me to do a big deep dive on the atrocious enshittification of Google for a long time now

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ringleader's avatar

It all started with Vine…

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