YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

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[–] 69 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's so common there's even a term for it now, "enshittification"

To quote the article that describes it:

"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."

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ The source is about TikTok but the author has gone on to describe how this applies to basically every modern tech company in various interviews.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Cory doctorow is an incredible (journalist?) (blogger?) idk something, his posts are good

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    His blog "Boing boing" was a luminary of the early blogosphere when that was a thing people believed would replace traditional media. He was very active with the EFF, copyleft/CC culture, the early maker scene. He was an okay novellist too ! All in all if you grabbed a copy of "Wired" from 2006 there's a 100% chance his name would be mentioned at least once in it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Writer is a good catch-all, especially since he's written some banger novels too. I read Little Brother right on the cusp of becoming an actual leftist and it had a big impact on me.

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