How the “enshittification” cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others
Today's links — Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.
Tiktok “is just another paperclip-maximizing artificial colony organism that treats human beings as inconvenient gut flora. It is only going to funnel free attention to the people it wants to entrap until they are entrapped, then it will withdraw that attention to monetize it.” h…
@doctorow
Cory Doctorow on x
Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant: Walled gardens considered harmful (to performers and audiences). https://twitter.com/... 2/ https://twitter.com/...
@scottmonty
Scott Monty on x
New word: “enshittification,” coined by @doctorow: “Once you understand the enshittification pattern, a lot of the platform mysteries solve themselves.” First they cater to users, then business customers, then claw back value for themselves. https://pluralistic.net/...
@agroebbe
Adelbert Groebbens on x
“Google Search was based on principles set out in founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin's landmark 1998 paper, ... in which they wrote, “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.” 😳😳 https://twitter.com/…
@doctorow
Cory Doctorow on x
In the #enshittification cycle, a #platform lures users with a good deal at first, then it lures business customers (advertisers, sellers, creators) by handing them the #surplus; finally, it takes all the surplus for itself, creating a pile of shit: https://pluralistic.net/... 1/…
@alexdecampi
Alex de Campi on x
The carney / giant teddy bear analogy is 👌🏻 https://twitter.com/...