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?

  • DashboTreeFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • zos_kia@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        7·
        1 year 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.

      • DashboTreeFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I first encountered him through the “This Week In Tech” podcast where he’s a frequent guest. I’m not sure what he is off the top of my head either but he’s brilliant

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Here, now, with the Fediverse, we are going Little Brother on enshittfied social media!

          Viva la Révolution !