#torrent-freak #internet-archive #ia #freedom #liberty #library #libraries #ebook #ebooks #lawsuit #price-gouging #enshittification #library-freedom #book-publishers #lawsuit
https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman/112055200503517307 maxleibman@mastodon.social - "If we don't write content tailored to the algorithm, no one will see our work.”
If you are specifically writing content for the algorithm, nobody needs to see your work.
#enshittification #SEO #ContentFarming
The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “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. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
Sep 14, 2023
"The #enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms 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. It doesn't have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four" (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users - reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures - leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification. We don't have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking - through privacy laws and other protections - and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!"
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Enshittification is when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts. The term was theorized by Canadian writer and thinker Cory Doctorow to describe the trajectory of platforms like TikTok, Amazon and Twitter. He argued that platforms start out serving users by offering features that lure them in, then they serve advertisers and third parties by offering ad targeting and deals, and lastly they serve themselves and their shareholders by cheating and exploiting both advertisers and users. Doctorow calls this process #enshittification.
What if this is just the late stage capitalism vulture capitalists just eating themselves. Consumers hate it and will seek places that don't have such shitty signal to noise ratio. Those could be places like the fediverse that aren't incentivized in the same way. It's not a question of ludditism. It's the equivalent of mid-20th century food product vomit that tried to convince us to eat everything with these shitty "time saving" products when we wanted real food. It didn't sink big agribusiness, unfortunately, but they had to get back to the basics. It'd be a wonderful thing in this case it sinks them with their shitty products too. #AI #enshittification #VultureCapitalism #LateStagCapitalism #fediverse
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web
#doctorow #amazon #facebook #tiktok #enshittification
the daily shit is known to everyone here I guess
always having trouble finding an item online which does not go through Amazon......
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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