Running_Out_Of_Ideas

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[–] Running_Out_Of_Ideas@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

Cory Doctorow is a got-dang witch. This was about Tiktok and it was written in January. Literally describing the process to a T.