Critics of zuckermuskian media claim those services are so terrible because they’re for-profit entities, capitalist enterprises hitched to the logic of extraction and profit above all else. The problem with this claim is that it doesn’t explain the changes to these services. After all, the reason so many of us got on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram is because they used to be a lot of fun. They were useful. They were even great at times.
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What?!?
This isn’t a deviation from the mainstream critique, this is the mainstream critique.
Not “caused by” but certainly “amplified by”.
Well I’m glad that the “cost” of changing platform is slowly diminishing with every fediverse project.