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Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification

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  • Jan 21, 2023
  • #SocialMedia #Capitalism
Cory Doctorow
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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 cu... Show More

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.

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Sriram Krishnan @SriramKrishnan · Jan 29, 2023
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Sadl find myself disagreeing more and more with @doctorow these days but this is worth a read. He is directionally right of platforms increasing "take rates" but a) the answer to this is actually in decentralization and b) competition + capitalism.
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