Dan Ballard on Nostr: Streaming services seem to be all chasing a slightly modified definition of ...
Streaming services seem to be all chasing a slightly modified definition of npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33)'s Enshitification with increasing speed this last year.
“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.”
Swap "business customers" for "investors and board members" and we can see that the deleting of tons and tons of content for short term gains in the form of tax write offs sure appears to be shitting on users to make investors and board members short term happy. It's also an utterly destructive long term plan if they want to attract or maintain a userbase. So cool. Enshitification comes to streaming services
“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.”
Swap "business customers" for "investors and board members" and we can see that the deleting of tons and tons of content for short term gains in the form of tax write offs sure appears to be shitting on users to make investors and board members short term happy. It's also an utterly destructive long term plan if they want to attract or maintain a userbase. So cool. Enshitification comes to streaming services