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[Jon]

It's all for the youtube views to generate revenue. The more people that watch, engage by making comments, then youtube suggests it more to other people, generating even more views.

Yeah, platform decay, or, per Wikipedia: enshittification. It's definitely hit YouTube.

All the lame places on the internet used to be really useful and cool. Even Facebook. Just five years ago Reddit was still intellectually valid and thought-provoking. Amazon is gradually Walmart-ifying these days. Etsy is half Alibaba now.

There are still good pockets on all of those platforms, especially if you know how to use them, but they follow that same pattern.

DIY forums have been the safest haven for genuine interactions over the past 30+ years. The exodus from Facebook and the current rise of "membership sites" (largely forums) is like a cyber-reactionary movement that is rejecting that common enshittification cycle.