I really thought this was going to be about gamergate and I was ready to just burn down the entire Internet

And they inevitably turn every service into an ad delivery service. Thus, enshitification. Subscription services directly convert the utility of the application into revenue. It will always make a better platform, but it might not scale as well.

XMPP is very underappreciated.

Honestly, if spez hadn’t already sold the site to white supremacists, I’d be a lot quicker to defend this.