Ha. Just the usual processes of enshittification. (Has that been anybody's word of the year? It should be.)
Forcing everyone towards videos instead of still images because TikTok. Adding a microblogging level that nobody wanted to try to capture the X market. Clogging up the images feed with irrelevant videos and ads. Opaque algorithms. Basically not letting you do the thing with the site that was the thing that you liked about it to begin with.
I used to love just looking at everybody's drawing challenges. But good luck if I see two artists that I follow in a day.
Did it get them more users? I guess it must have.
Plus, of course they are a Meta site.
That's the one thing about Dreamwidth – I don't mind a little extra HTML, but you couldn't call this an image-sharing site.
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Date: 2025-02-08 07:16 am (UTC)Ha. Just the usual processes of enshittification. (Has that been anybody's word of the year? It should be.)
Forcing everyone towards videos instead of still images because TikTok. Adding a microblogging level that nobody wanted to try to capture the X market. Clogging up the images feed with irrelevant videos and ads. Opaque algorithms. Basically not letting you do the thing with the site that was the thing that you liked about it to begin with.
I used to love just looking at everybody's drawing challenges. But good luck if I see two artists that I follow in a day.
Did it get them more users? I guess it must have.
Plus, of course they are a Meta site.
That's the one thing about Dreamwidth – I don't mind a little extra HTML, but you couldn't call this an image-sharing site.