Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer s... – Listen to Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification" by Future Tense instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.

Very applicable to Reddit, Twitter and FB especially.

  • thereticent@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Cory Doctorow bookends my use of reddit. About 20 years ago I started to read him at boingboing, where I learned about del.icio.us (he had an obsession with “folksonomy”, or organization by user-created tags), the social bookmarking site. From there I learned of reddit and made an account soon after that was possible (it was just the frontpage for a bit). That was 5 Nov 2005, and while I thought I would stay until or after my account was old enough to vote in the US, I’ve let it go. I was user #497, same username as here. Finally, Cory D’s concept of enshittification has found it’s apotheosis, and it’s a bittersweet goodbye for me.

    Thanks for reading. Keep it human.