Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But "why are Gen Z kids leaving Tiktok?" is the wrong question. The right question ...
But "why are Gen Z kids leaving Tiktok?" is the wrong question. The right question is, why *aren't* Millennials leaving Tiktok? After all, we are living through the enshittocene, the great enshittening, in which every platform gets monotonically, irreversibly worse over time, and Tiktok is no exception:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys2/
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