Tag: Meta
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The enshittification of “enshittification”
Cory Doctorow’s idea of “enshittification”, as elucidated in his post here is quite simple: Here is how platforms die: first, 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. Then, they…
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Meta and the fediverse: sorting heat from light
As I alluded to in my previous post on the Fediverse and Mastodon (as before, used interchangeably here, deal with it), the prospect of Meta’s new “Project 92″/”Threads” being ActivityPub compatible has led a not-insubstantial quantity of existing Mastodon users to react with incredible fury and calls for the entire thing to be blocked by…
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Hello World! You prick
I’ve decided to start a blog again, and not post about politics on it. This is a placeholder for when I have some interesting thoughts to share, which is expected at some point after the sun explodes. Anyway, why does WordPress.com now hide the option to create a free blog site so enthusiastically? I genuinely…