Of course we’re always going to have to adapt as capital catches up, that doesn’t mean these contraptions can’t have value in the short-term.

I have no disagreement over that particular point, except to say "adapt" is not the same thing as "submissive acceptance of what capital can do and will inevitably try to do with it."

:reddit-logo: was never good, especially because it swallowed up the userbase of countless smaller competing forums and was a near-monopoly of its kind. Even the "value in the short-term" has already been squeezed with cryptocurrency grifting attempts, deliberately worse interface and layout decisions designed to drive more "engagement," and clunkier and jankier everything except the ever more streamlined and more efficient monetization and surveillance/data-collecting systems that the ruling class benefits from.