Saturday, December 23, 2023

Ens***ification


Brilliant article with regard to the trajectory of platforms, to selling out its users and content creators. Slurs included. 20-30 min read 

How platforms become rent-seekers and then sell out, prioritizing the mass advertiser investor. Then move towards death, happened to yahoo, happened to MySpace.

Twitter had gone to it with its subscriptions, Tumbler with its payola boost, Facebook too.

Blogger is more on the back burner, so I doubt it will go the same direction, if it starts with pay walled boost buttons then I'd reconsider.

The same payola auction scheme with discovery that happened to these platforms with the same dance. I'm gonna have to check out those podcasts too.