From I don’t want to log in to your website:
I was on the internet in the 1990s, and I remember when people just made stuff for fun — as a gift to other people. It seems like there’s less and less of that spirit remaining, and it’s why the internet sucks now. It’s why I have to append “reddit” to my Google searches to avoid getting SEO glurge — the for-profit stuff drowns out everything else. It’s why people are using DALL-E for newsletter header images to make sure their newsletter gets a bigger card in a social media feed — because it doesn’t matter what the image looks like as long as it exists. It’s why people intentionally put errors in their TikToks to juice engagement — because all the people commenting to tell you you’re wrong boost you in the algorithm. This is the bad place!
In a lot of ways, I miss the ‘net of the ’90s. But I’m still here, doing my part, without any annoying login popups. I may not post as much as I once did, and the majority of it may be my short little book reviews, but at least I’m still going, and working on posting more regularly again. I figure I’ll keep doing this as long as I can.