First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • sharp@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    From Cory Doctorow:

    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.

    https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

    Some of it is because we had a decade of cheap borrowing which has come to an end and many of these platforms were never profitable.