First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

  • lvxferre
    92•11 months ago

    They saw Lemmy becoming successful, corporate mistook Lemmy with Lemmings, and decided to go out Lemmings style.

    …jokes aside, Cory Doctorow has a great text about that, called “Tiktok’s enshittification”. It’s a four-steps process:

    1. The platform is good for its users.
    2. The platform abuses the users, to be good for its business customers.
    3. The platform abuses the business customers, to claw back all value for itself.
    4. The platform dies.

    In my opinion it’s also the result of management being disconnected from the platform that it manages, and not knowing fully the implications of their own decisions.