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“Enshittification.”
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Cory Doctorow skewers TikTok, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook by comparing their modus operandi to a classic carnival ploy. How do we escape the enshittification cycle?
Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)
[Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow]
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