I’ve been thinking a bit lately about this newsletter¹ I read a bit ago.

In other words, after more than a decade of Web 2.0 bliss, everyone has gone back to … lurking.

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Basically the gist is that we went from a time of blogs, and even social media conversations to now most people interacting with memes, or direct messages. Meanwhile I’m out here posting on a blog in 2025 and creating little niche websites².

I contemplate that some of us are living in a time where we’re more guarded. Maybe the millennial culture around posting things has died down as we’ve aged, or the walled gardens of social media sites dictated by the a̬̞͈͔̬l͔̰̖̰̖͂̏̂ͨgͤ̾ó͖̆̇ͨ̚r͚͎ͭ̓ͮ̀ì̦ͩ͛̇t̀̿͐̓̑h̜͇̥ͣͩͫ̈́̚m̜̥ͫ̚ just hide those little things we used to share. I kind of hate tracking everyone’s life updates through Facebook or LinkedIn.

Maybe everyone just values their privacy more, which is ironic because… of the aforementioned walled gardens that track literally everything about you. At this point, you might as well put up a website for an AI scrapper to pillage.

1. You should totally subscribe to it, it’s good. ↩︎
2. Someday I’ll create a way for you to find them. ↩︎