Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (catvalente.substack.com)

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Catherynne M. Valente

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Vey good read. I feel like honestly acknowledging the anger that people are feeling is key to stopping our descent. This post really captures that.

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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