Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

With a side of hallucinations.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

In a term? Dominion mentality. Add a little master/servant hierarchy, a pinch of patriarchy and stir well.

There are benefits?

As a US citizen, it seems like it should be relegated to the last century and not dragged any further into the future.

^ TL; DR

You also left out “again”.

That’s just one that we can see, it’s the ones we can’t that give pause.

Weed smoking will not be confined to the patio, I assure you.

These are the fools that believe power, position and buckets’o’bux will insulate them from the apocalypse.

This is the poster child for enshittification; RIP bluebird, we salute what you were.

In a perfect world maybe it would work that way, but I’ve seen too much enshittifaction via vertical integration or ego driven CEObros to have anything but skepticism for industry regulation, self-regulation in particular.

With how many poison pills inside?

See posts from Will Wheaton and others on what creative accounting does to residual income. Ronald Reagan must be spinning like a top ATM.