I wonder what the “apex” for all of this is - as in, when do we hit critical mass and the advertisers pull out of this nonsense dumpster fire that is the current internet.

Surely, at some point, if the advertisers know they’re advertising to no one aside from bots on websites that host fake content, then they will pull out and the service providers will have to try and actually make the internet “usable” again? Perhaps I’m being too generous.

We are so unbelievably fucked it’s not even funny anymore.

Eh, it also helps that it’s from a recognisable brand that people already understand. Decentralised social networks have a long way to go to meet the elevator-pitch test, as it were.

Not to say that it makes it any less bad, but just that it’s at the very least understandable - I can easily see the “average person” saying “I want to leave Twitter” and just picking something is relatively similar, with a single logon page that just works out of the gate.

I’m still a huge fan of LibraryThing (http://librarything.com/), especially with its embed functionality so I can embed it into my site