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Reddit is systematically degrading old Reddit through a thousand small cuts — login walls, broken incognito, killed APIs — to push out “bad users” who don’t generate ad revenue. But the users they’re shedding are the same ones who built the culture, wrote the deep-dive posts, and moderated the communities that made Reddit worth billions. This is the enshittification playbook in real time.
AI is driving the marginal cost of software to zero, creating a utopian dream of free apps. But the nightmare is that the only sustainable business models left are extractive: ads, addiction, and lock-in. This article explains why your favorite apps are getting worse — and what it means for creators and users alike.
You don’t stay on social media because you love it. You stay because leaving means losing your digital address book. The only successful ‘new’ platform won’t be a replacement — it’ll be a tool for digital eviction: extract your social graph, delete your account, and burn the bridge behind you.
A single commit—b9927—in the llama.cpp repository introduced access controls, marking the beginning of the end for the last truly open, unmonitored AI tool. The community’s warnings are clear: get the genuine build before it’s too late. This is the pattern of enshittification, and it’s happening right now.