> The utopian bits were never really explained, either.

That’s a bit of a spoiled attitude. You can’t expect a science fiction author to just casually solve a problem that humanity hasn’t managed to solve in millennia.

We also accept that they have warp drive without expecting an explanation how they got it.

Oh, great, then there is nothing to fix. We just apply medieval standards and everything is hunky dory.

a lot of people unironically believe this or even worse, many of the same people seem to be arguing for a new monarchy lately lol.

i keep telling them they’re free to have their own personal monarchy in their own family as long as people are free to leave and also to leave the rest of us out of it. but for some reason they don’t seem to like the idea as much then.

Good. Let them have a taste of their own medicine.

You can’t thoroughly enshittify when users still have recourse. That hole has been plugged now. It was only a question of time.

Unrelated to AI, they engineered their own downfall with the way they treat contributors and the questions they still do get. I have practically forgotten that this platform exists at all.

DDOS from an LLM.

Still cheaper to let Meta get their hands dirty than to launch a CIA operation and attempting to keep it covert.

The biggest bugs are folks like Dario and Sam. I agree they can’t be fixed.

Are you saying archived articles may be fake? What exactly is untrustworthy about an archiving service?

Manual tampering: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

I can only imagine the heartbreaking trauma these poor rich people are made to suffer when parting with their beloved money to pay taxes. What an earth-shattering tragedy. How do they survive?