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<p>Starting straight from the Gizmodo headline: <a href="https://gizmodo.com/imgur-bans-nsfw-content-will-delete-old-posts-1850356455">Imgur bans NSFW Content, Begins Purge</a>. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.</p>
<p>Back in the early heyday of reddit, imgur was created by a sole developer attempting to offer an image hosting solution to a budding reddit in the wake of Digg’s utter collapse. This site has grown massively in the intervening 15 years due to the ease of posting images anonymously, without an account. It was also a major hosting haven for reddit’s burgeoning NSFW subreddits and relevant communities.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this bastion of free information on the internet is about to begin a major clampdown:</p>
<p>Quoting from Imgur’s official statement which you can read in full <a href="https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-">here</a>:</p>
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<p>This of course is going to be majorly disruptive to NSFW subreddits but additionally its going to wipe out huge amounts of historic information from the first eight or so years of reddit’s life. Until reddit made their own image hosting platform in 2016, Imgur was the de facto standard for uploads. Now all kinds of information from old photos, charts, infographics, guides, albums and so on will be lost forever unless forces act to archive them quickly. But archiving them is not always easy, especially since many folks have abandoned accounts and move on.</p>
<p>In my opinion this a dark day for the internet and its continued but unfortunate <em><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys">enshittification</a></em> to borrow Mr. Cory Doctorow’s term.</p>
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<p>Today bums me out. Why? Because the Peoria, IL <a href="https://www.round1usa.com/">Round 1</a> location is closing tonight at 10pm for good. For those who aren’t familiar, Round 1 is an arcade chain in Japan and the United States which offers a mix of food, bowling, karaoke, classic arcade games but most importantly to me, Japanese rhythm games. Back in its pre-COVID heyday, it was opened until 2am and allowed adults only after 10pm which made it an excellent spot to have a beer and play some games with friends or sing our hearts out.</p>
<p>With regard to rhythm games: think the well known titles like Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up but also a lot more specialized games like Beatmania IIDX (pronounced 2-D-X), Sound Voltex, Groove Coaster, Tetote and Wacca. These games have very limited presence outside of Japan. Short of visiting Japan, getting a hold of a cab yourself or ripping arcade copies from private internet sites, these arcades are the only chance to experience this niche gaming hobby.</p>
<p>But this hobby goes well beyond just games, it also has a thriving micro-culture of locals who have been playing for years. For me, its how I met one of my now best friends back in 2006, when we played a DDR-clone game called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Groove_(video_game_series)">In The Groove</a> back at the <a href="https://zoness.me/posts/2022/06/old-places-liminal-spaces/">Galesburg Sandburg Mall</a> in the days where we still gathered in person for such things.</p>
<p>It was not common to find these games or people into their special brand of electronic Japanese music. The crowd went beyond just casual gamers but extended into a fairly marginalized group that featured a mix of plain old nerds, cosplayers, furries, LGBT+ and those just interested in the fusion of dance, music and rhythm into video games. With this community I found another great group of friends that is scattered across the midwest and its hard to gather everyone.</p>
<p>Round 1 in Peoria offered this focal point. It opened in late November of 2017 and is closing today May 21st, 2023. It’s crazy to think that this focal point in the center of the state offered a meetup spot for old friends but also helped to rekindle some relationships with friends too. Not only that, my wife was an active participant in these games and always felt included. Plus I made a lot of new friends. In a world where we are becoming more isolated, atomized and suspicious of each other, it was refreshing to have a public space where we could all very visibly enjoy our hobby. I am sad to see yet another one of these special places close in a long line of failed ventures. COVID really did it in between declining business, security issues and a revolving door of staff. Still, for even its short-lived time in our short-lived culture, it was nice to have that space where rhythm gamers could truly feel like themselves.</p>
<p>In February 2019 and last week we had gathering specifically at our location. Coordinated by Discord, a gathering of folks from all across Illinois, some from Indiana and Wisconsin and others even further way, all meeting in person. Exchanging introductions usually with our Discord handles then often our real names and often times pronouns as people experiment with, and find comfort in their true identities. We are an inclusive community free of hate and vitriol sometimes seen in the wider world. Coming together felt like the childhood experience of meeting your friends on the weekend to talk video games, anime, Pokemon and to trade stories, jokes and laughs.</p>
<p>Today’s closure disperses an already sparse community but I look at the positives: not only the memories we made but also the connections. We have more opportunities now than ever to stay in touch and to travel and meet even more people who share our interests. The next closest location of Round 1 is in Aurora, IL in the Chicago suburbs. Some of us have friends who run private basement arcades with real cabinets and cloned software to emulate the experience. I am sure these private spaces will be where many memories also made but today is the end of something and it makes me sad. I hold out hope that perhaps we transition into something else that can give me a bright hope for the future. Until next time, friends…THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!</p>
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<p>The internet sucks lately. Well, not lately. There has been a rot that has been setting in for years, now more accelerated by rising interest rates making “free money” technology ventures very unpopular and risky. What we’re seeing today is what Cory Doctorow famously coins as <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/">Enshittification</a>. Quoting him directly from that link:</p>
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<p>Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.</p>
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<p>His essay specifically describes this phenomenon on TikTok but its really infested many reaches of the internet. Some prominent examples include:</p>
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<li><a href="https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown">Netflix and their new onerous password sharing crack down</a></li>
<li>I<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/hosting-site-imgur-will-remove-explicit-and-anonymous-content-next-month/">mgur’s ban of NSFW content and deletion of old content, creating a lot of dead links</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185740767/why-twitter-is-limiting-the-number-of-tweets-a-user-can-view">Twitter and….basically anything they do now</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/third-party-reddit-apps-shut-down-3341631/">Reddit and its crackdown on third party apps such as Apollo, reddit is fun, Sync, BaconReader</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtube-is-going-to-stop-you-using-ad-blockers-heres-how">Youtube testing the blocking of adblockers and cramming more ads down our throats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/gfycat_snap_shutdown/">Gfycat going out of business, making the internet even more of a forest of dead links</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/02/19/google-search-has-gotten-worse-heres-the-trick-people-have-found-to-get-around-it.html">Google so totally infested with AI-driven SEO content farming that no reasonable search results can be found</a></li>
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<p>Turns out that when interest rates creep up, these so called stewards of the internet realize they can and will milk the internet for every last penny. Who cares if the user’s experience is made worse? Where do they have to go? At least that’s the thinking in the short term. Mastodon and Bluesky are two up and coming projects to replace Twitter with a deep focus on federation and decentralization. Lemmy is a federated, open source reddit alternative. These ideas have a lot of hurdles to overcome, such as moderation, infrastructure spending and long term expansion plans.</p>
<p>However as a regular user I have to say: this really sucks. The internet I grew up on in the late 90s and 00s was pretty much dead by the middle of the last decade, replaced by these giant social powerhouses. However even those have lost a lot of their core value propositions that have made them, and many other services totally unusable. As someone practically raised on engagement with the internet, seeing all of the services and culture that I love slowly (and even very rapidly) disappear has genuinely left me in a sour mood lately. I don’t really know what I can do about it other than run my small, informal little corner of the internet and hold out hope that some of the alternatives might take off.</p>
<p>Another possibility is that maybe this is just a hard withdrawal from a social media era that needed to die anyways. After all, people are moving into smaller, easier to moderate, more curated audiences to avoid trolls, helicopter parents, invasive employers and others to vibe with a closer circle of friends and acquaintances on more specific topics. Discord excels at this but also any platform that supports closed group chats. I am very much in sync with this <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon">Verge article titled “So where are we all supposed to go now?”</a> which states:</p>
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<p>As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea.</p>
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<p>And maybe its true. Maybe this was always a fleeting era of exploding out neurons full of dopamine in a culture already over saturated with appearances and “brand engagement”. It could be for the better than we’re moving beyond the social area. I am not going to mourn the social web disintegrating, in a lot of ways its responsible for how much of a trash heap the internet has become. I am afraid that we’re heading towards cable-package style siloing of internet experiences into small little channels for neat little demographics and I think the over-corporatization of the internet is going to get worse and worse.</p>
<p>All of that said, at the end of the day I will still have my little corner of the internet here where I can vent my feelings into the wind, perhaps to only be read by large language models dutifully ingesting my hot takes. In the end at least I have some control over my tiny little platform, and maybe that’s all I can hope for.</p>
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<p>Welp I went ahead and did it AGAIN; I switched to the warm embrace of Apple and purchased an iPhone 14. My current Google Pixel 5a is a nice phone in working order, but its over two years old and so I was feeling the itch to upgrade. I managed to catch a Black Friday promotion for some money off of a new phone and figured, why not?</p>
<p>See there&rsquo;s some backstory here: my growing frustration with Google as a money. It&rsquo;s clear to me that they&rsquo;ve lost their way from their days as a plucky startup, onto a large but loveable tech giant moving the internet forward. Now they&rsquo;ve atrophied into a directionless company that, addicted to the heroin drip of ad money, is not sure what they want.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for consumers, they&rsquo;ve decided to make this lack of identity our problem. Whether its the now very famous <a href="https://killedbygoogle.com/">Killed by Google</a> site which, at the time of writing, boasts an impressive count of 290 products killed. Or perhaps, its the fact that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/">Chrome begin limiting Ad Blockers by June of 2024</a> presumably as a way to bolster their ad business. If that wasn&rsquo;t bad enough, YouTube itself has become pretty much unusable without sophisticated ad blocking to which <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/ad_block_google/">Google has openly admitted its limiting users who use adblockers</a>. Now I am fine paying a couple of dollars a month to remove ads and compensate creators but I am not paying $14/month for it to all go into Sundar Pichai&rsquo;s pocket.</p>
<p>Even further still we have more nastiness emerging on the consumer side such as <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-says-bumpy-pixel-8-screens-are-nothing-to-worry-about/">Pixel 8 bumps under the screen of components pushing into the OLED panel</a> which Google exists is not a production defect that will cause problems in the future but anyone who has owned the famous Nexus 6P knows to not trust their hardware claims. We&rsquo;re often always told that the Cloud platform will save us all, so feel free to dump all of your documents onto their storage platform. For a small cost, and permission to scan all of your documents and photos for advertising profiles, you too can access your data anywhere! Unless of course they <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-drive-users-angry-over-losing-months-of-stored-data/">lose your Google Drive files</a> which at the time of writing is a problem that&rsquo;s still actively developing, and not solved.</p>
<p>They regular meddle in open web standards, trying to use their Chrome majority position to push <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/">onerous web changes that look more like DRM</a> rather than any actual improvement to website security. Or perhaps the fact that Android at least one <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/google_privacy_button/">fake toggle that promises to not track you while still doing so</a>. All of these tracking things would perhaps be less egregious if it made their one core product, search, better. All signs point to the opposite as AI-generated content has completely overrun the search engine making it dulled to the point of worthlessness. I switched to a mix of Bing and DuckDuckGo of all things because the former now has a superior image search and the latter has the convenient &ldquo;bang&rdquo; system which allows me to forward my queries to be redirected to specific sites ex. !g for google, !w for wikipedia, !r for reddit.</p>
<p>All of these things combined with more that I did not bother to list influenced my purchase choice: it&rsquo;s not that Apple does NO tracking of users, but it doesn&rsquo;t make up the majority of their business income. I would not personally get in the habit of presuming automatic good faith from them either, but its refreshing that their intentions are clear from the start: &ldquo;Buy into our ecosystem, spend the money, but then you WILL have a positive, coherent experience where your data is tightly controlled within the walled garden&rdquo;. Historically this has not been a deal I have been willing to accept, but the older I get, and the more I expect things to just work, it has become more appealing.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m hoping the next two years I spend on an iPhone are enough time for Google to decide what kind of company it wants to be. What might help with that soul-search is finding a replacement for Sundar Pichai, but I suspect it could take five or more years to really get them back on track. In the meantime, I am going to try to make the best of my new iPhone and see where this new ecosystem ride takes me. I&rsquo;m currently trying to harmonize it with the rest of my workflow, a topic worthy of its own post.</p>
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