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Every time I use Facebook (which isn't many but still) I am re-shocked at how fucking SLOW it is. How many times I end up refreshing the page because some damn thing didn't connect quick enough, or maybe too quick and it wasn't ready, I'm not sure.

YouTube is also great for this, like, 1/50 navigation clicks just results in a blank page with no error message. Ctrl-R to the rescue.

Or the number of times Reddit's infinite scroll just... dies. Somewhere in the background, I don't know where.

Like I can't think of any of these major platform websites where shit isn't just constantly tripping over it's own dick and breaking in often humorous but also just ridiculous ways.



Insulated market forces allow certain platforms to operate like this with very few overall repercussions.

They also don’t represent the overall web. I think it would be more far to take a sum of websites used, as opposed to number of users.




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