Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The thing is, social media's business model is a giant rug-pull. They're not even ...
The thing is, social media's business model is a giant rug-pull. They're not even bothering to hide their playbook anymore. For social media, the game is to get media companies to become reliant on third parties to reach their audiences. Once that reliance is established, the companies turn down - or even halt - the ability of those media companies to reach their audience altogether. Then, they *charge the media companies to reach their audiences*:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web12/
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