chikorita157 🐰 on Nostr: This is a very relevant article to why centralized platforms are turning into, well ...
This is a very relevant article to why centralized platforms are turning into, well shit. It's the owner's way of attracting people to use their platform with the promise of making the platform valuable to its users.
When they realize their profits, they exploit their users by ruining the experience and requiring users to pay, hence the “enshittification”. After you realize this, it becomes impossible to leave because you risk losing connections, losing access to your puchases, etc. We are seeing this with Imgur, Twitter, and Reddit.
The obvious way to avoid enshittification is using the Fediverse. The Fediverse is Social Media as a utility, thus nobody can exploit the ActivityPub protocol monetarily. Sure, Mastodon/Calckey/Akkoma/Misskey instances can turn to crap if its not properly moderated or shut down, but you can always move to another one and still have your connections and access to the Fediverse.
It's a long read, but it can explain why Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, and other big centralized platforms are turning into crap.
No, #bluesky doesn't count since it's for profit and in theory, it have the same enshittification problem.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
#reddit #twitter #tiktok #fediverse #imgur
When they realize their profits, they exploit their users by ruining the experience and requiring users to pay, hence the “enshittification”. After you realize this, it becomes impossible to leave because you risk losing connections, losing access to your puchases, etc. We are seeing this with Imgur, Twitter, and Reddit.
The obvious way to avoid enshittification is using the Fediverse. The Fediverse is Social Media as a utility, thus nobody can exploit the ActivityPub protocol monetarily. Sure, Mastodon/Calckey/Akkoma/Misskey instances can turn to crap if its not properly moderated or shut down, but you can always move to another one and still have your connections and access to the Fediverse.
It's a long read, but it can explain why Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, and other big centralized platforms are turning into crap.
No, #bluesky doesn't count since it's for profit and in theory, it have the same enshittification problem.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
#reddit #twitter #tiktok #fediverse #imgur