I saw this article posted in another thread and it seems to explain a lot. Not sure how close it is to reality, but it looks like nostalgia is at least a partial reason for this change.
Yep. Fucking nostalgia.
fearout
joined 1 year ago
I know, right? It’s so weird. In every single instance of some bullshit happening it’s easy to brush it off as incompetence or an attempt at profit maximization, but overall it feels a lot like some kind of targeted disassembly of whatever made the internet great and facilitated open discussions.
There’s a link to explain xkcd right in the post, but in short — they’re the same person.
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Check out the pinned post for a general guide to the community that includes lots of relevant examples.
The community is located on kbin. In case you don’t see any posts, no one from your instance has yet subscribed to the community. Subscribe and you’ll see new posts going forward. There are a dozen threads there right now.
Links are a still somewhat a mess, but hopefully at least one should work:
!urbandetails | !urbandetails
Or just paste this into search: urbandetails@kbin.social
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Industrial Design — a community to discuss interesting ID projects or techniques, share your work, ask for advice, or see what other designers came up with
(media.kbin.social)
The community is located on kbin. In case you don’t see any posts, no one from your instance has yet subscribed to the community. Subscribe and you’ll see new posts going forward. There are several threads there atm.
Links are a bit weird, but at least one should work:
!IndustrialDesign | !IndustrialDesign
Or just paste this into search: industrialdesign@kbin.social
Locking social norms at some predetermined stage is a great way to curb all progress. Like, slavery was a social norm at some point.