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Why do so many tech companies, like Reddit and Twitter are making their platforms worse for their users all of a sudden? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cilantrillo@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kabe@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

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 die.

from Cory Doctorow's article on 'enshittification', which has become mandatory reading.

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 1 points 1 year ago

I think the exception is companies “too big to die.” They serve as the archangels of tech so ALL other goals lead to being bought by FAANG or dying.

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