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Isn't this some variation on the idea that as something gets "successful" it becomes shitty? I'm sure there are private corners of the internet where lots of people are going and showing nuts, that by definition most people don't know about, allowing more people than in 2007 or whatever to share what they want. But the internet is also now completely dominated by the blandness of success, so what we see are the successes that have been forced to sell out to the complainers and pearl clutches (there's an associated name I can't remember).

(Incidentally, this is a reason I've argued that the facebook metaverse will suck. It is never going to have some halcyon days as a cool site before success ruins it. It's coming out of the box with people worrying about "groping" and whatnot in a way that will force it to suck by design because everything will be about "safety" and the like, before anything good takes hold. See also the Zune)



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