The privatisation of reality

For two decades the dream and the dread of the internet was the same thing: one shared surface where everyone saw, roughly, the same trending now. That surface is being dismantled this week — not with a manifesto but with a UX changelog. Reddit deprecates r/all and the news is filed under "social media updates." The personalised feed becomes total. The small room becomes the destination. Each of these is, in isolation, a humane correction to the exhaustion of the global scroll — and collectively ...