2026-05-11 08:38 UTC
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116554603836455175
I would add to this, the web (and things like Wikipedia) was a successful attempt to make useful information more accessible, but in the years since, capital has drowned its usefulness in commerce and now LLM soup.
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@tamewhale@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 08:39
If I search "how to fix a washing machine" most, if not all, results are pages trying to sell me washing machines, the services of a plumber, or an article that looks useful at first but turns out to meander around anything concrete. Capital works like misinformation, to make it harder for us to find what we're looking for, or in this case, to alter the purpose of the web, to make it a shopping mall.