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Why do so many tech companies, like Reddit and Twitter are making their platforms worse for their users all of a sudden? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] kabe 191 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (28 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.

from Cory Doctorow's article on 'enshittification', which has become mandatory reading.

[–] cilantrillo 18 points 1 year ago (14 children)

That was a good read, the thing is that it seems that all of a sudden a lot of tech companies are getting more and more anti-consumer. I mean it’s not only the whole Reddit and Twitter thing, now Youtube is getting more aggressive with adblocking, Stackoverflow and their mod protest, Google dropping support for the open source diaper and messaging apps on Android…

Many companies are getting more aggressive against their customers, and in the end it feels like the internet as it used to be is really dying, and we might end up with the whole “dead internet theory” becoming reality. I don’t know it just feels very depressing.

[–] CavalierAlbatross 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few companies open the floodgates and takes a lot of the blame, flak, and focus (see: Netflix, Twitter). Other companies can seize the moment and ride the wave to potentially increase profits with less blowback than they might otherwise receive.

[–] Eddyzh -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean Netflix has the community and producers thing and all but starting charging money for shared accounts and offering a cheaper version with adds is not really enshittificstion to me.

The deliver a service I pay for. That's ok.

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