@stefan @pluralistic touché

@stefan this is gold and i love that i know exactly why you're posting this, but it's absolutely *killing* me that you have him saying "but you've heard of it." instead of "but you HAVE heard of it."

@zackrobbin Hah, you are right!

But I fear that there are too many boosts now to fix that

@stefan @pluralistic eeesh, "Platform Decay" is like highbrow bobo greenwashing of a normal term, #enshittification that is

@stefan
its not just platform decay

its about how businesses like Netflix and Uber use a load of venture capital to undermine regular businesses, gain monopolistic control over a market, and then use it to progressively worsen the experience for profit

you have nowhere else to go, no other platform to flee to, so you are stuck on said platform eating shit

@normjess To be fair, that is the origin of the word, see https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

"a talk that kicked off a lot of international interest in my analysis of platform decay ("enshittification")"

But I do agree that the way it's used has more nuance.

@stefan fair enough, but that's what I took away from the book, so

if that's all he meant, maybe rip a few chapters out

@zackrobbin Alright, fine, after you pointed this out, it really started to bug me, so I went ahead and fixed it.

Apologies to everyone for the updated post notification!

@stefan lol ok thank you and also i'm sorry too

@stefan
Dropping in the link
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
for the next 10,000.

Ten Thousand

xkcd (xkcd.com)