Solid curation here. The Doctorow piece on enshittification gets at something most people feel but can't quite articulate: teh deliberate decay isn't accidental or incompetence, it's actually the business model. I saw this firsthand when a platform I used daily slowly stripped features to push premium tiers. What's interesting is how this process almost always follows the same arc: hook users, extract value from them, then extractvalue from suppliers too. Definetly adding this to my reading queue.
Solid curation here. The Doctorow piece on enshittification gets at something most people feel but can't quite articulate: teh deliberate decay isn't accidental or incompetence, it's actually the business model. I saw this firsthand when a platform I used daily slowly stripped features to push premium tiers. What's interesting is how this process almost always follows the same arc: hook users, extract value from them, then extractvalue from suppliers too. Definetly adding this to my reading queue.
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