I'm just sitting here thinking about the internet when I was a kid, and how the biggest problem in the communities I ran in were megalomaniac BDFLs (sometimes explicitly without the B) just making changes and rules because they wanted to with no consideration for the community.

I don't think I could have really possibly foreseen how much worse it'd be when profit-seeking companies were in those positions of leadership instead.

I was thinking about the Jark deviantart favorites notification drama (haha dating myself again) and how that was awful and at the time I thought deviantart was the worst most user-hostile site in the world.

Haha no.

But then again, now we're looking at birdsite: which now has a megalomaniac single point of decision and leadership who has no consideration for community.

We've come full circle in one of the worst ways.