Why big tech companies suck right now. Looking at you Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube… (sponsor was here)
Some of Cory Doctorow’s stuff! Ensh*ttification: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ End-to-End: https://doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-d6046dca366f
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I think this is the market model of a lot of American startup companies having a huge financial backbone. Work years even decades on loss in order to catch as much of the market as possible, and once you are a market leader start the enshittification and abuse your market position.
Can’t help but think that the all-too prevalent (here, at least) attitude that one shouldn’t have to pay anything, or very, very little, for quality content has a lot to do with it.
I honestly think that philosophy is fine. Before the major social media sites all came about, the Internet was filled with much smaller communities that didn’t need to be profitable or scalable - they could be run by an individual as a hobby project. I think returning to that (possibly with the use of federation so these small communities still have a good amount of content) could keep things free, ad free, and privacy conscious
Do the journalists (and researchers, editors, verifying staff, etc.) all work for free?
The venture capital samba:
- Make free service (it’ll pan out, trust me bro).
- 1 years passes… trust me bro
- 3 years passes… look at all this user data we can sell - trust me bro
- 2 more year passes… look, we’re going to have to fire some people…
- 1 year passes… we’re not really making any money, so trust me bro - we’re only going to increase subscription fees a little…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- 1 year later, increase subscription fees…
- Listen, Mr Creditor - I have liquidity. So much liquidity. I’m rife with the stuff… increase subscription fees
And so forth, and so on…
Glad he linked Cory Doctorow at the end. His recent works like the internet con cover this topic well.
He does offer solutions but as you could guess these things aren’t easy to fix.
