I would expect the opposite. It's cheap to write now, which will dilute the voices of traditional media. It's the blogosphere times ten.

Also cheap to create AstroTurf, be that blogs or short form video.

Cheapness implies volume which we are already seeing. Volume implies less impact per piece because there are only so many total view hours available.

Stated another way, the more junk that gets churned out, the less people will take a particular piece of junk seriously.

And if they churn out too much junk (especially obvious manipulative falsehoods) people will have little choice but to de-facto regard the entire body of output as junk. Similar to how many people feel about modern mainstream media (correctly or not it's how many feel) and for the same reasons.

I wonder what opportunity this creates for fraud. My grandpa doesn't even know what a tweet is. How hard would it be for a phishing campaign to convince my grandpa to click a fake tweet that says, "In order to continue benefits, please reconfirm your SSN here"?

Of course it creates a massive opportunity for fraud. But no one in this administration cares about fraud and scams, haven't you seen the President's namesake crypto shitcoin? Or his namesake fraudulent university? Or his namesake fraudulent charity?

The way this administration sees it, separating suckers from their money is virtuous -- if you're smart enough to defraud them, you should be rewarded for your efforts. But if you're dumb enough to be conned, you got what was coming to you. Be smarter next time or perish.

This is the new morality.

But just think how much more valuable rug-pull coins/advertising became on X. A whole new target market of people being forced to move there and forced to view the algo.

I think this still increases the risk of an individual falling for a scam. If the official press releases are happening there, it's not crazy for a senior to think other communication might as well.

Good thing that if they sign up Elon has totally cleaned Twitter up from all the bots!

The demographic shift to a bunch of lovely young ladies on X is because of how much the next generation values maximal truth seeking

> notice that this takes over 5s. How is anything like that acceptable in 2025 is beyond me

I tried it just now. 18.09MB and 8.81s to show a 67 file diff. The fetch for /diffs was 4.6MB.

The page is usable from about 4s on but things keep loading.

Some my extensions probably make things worse: Stylus, Tampermonkey, Vimium. Others like Ghostery are blocking tons of tracking requests (collector.github.com)

I also find it hilarious that they send some performance data to collector.github.com

If you're going to track me for perf than at least use that data somehow.

I wonder if we'll see a Cuba-like effect, with a proliferation of repair shops, DIY culture, and 10-year-old phones.

I feel myself wanting to hold on to my wife's old iPhone 8 a bit longer, even though it went out of support last week.

This is not so simple with Apple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27240008

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20641424

How did you do it?

Reminds me of https://www.strav.art/

I found the answer on your gh-contributions-gizmo repo:

> A 100 LOC script to hack the GitHub contributions map thingie to display a message over the course of a year.

> It works by deploying a Cloud Functions scheduled daily, which on the necessary days makes a commit on my behalf, on this very repo.