At risk of rambling… It feels like attention spans have shortened, too.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/29/gen-z-kids-reading-tv-songs

People don’t want to dig through long discussions and documentation, they want a quick fix in a YouTube Short, or for it to be fed to them shooting the breeze in Discord.

And this sorta works short term, until the “old” information well those shorter systems rely on dries up.

It’s already a serious problem in newer topics. I’m part of the “localllama” community, for instance, and it feels like any central organization of knowledge has completely collapsed, and there is no old info to fall back on because everything is so new.