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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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:

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Was going link this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Really great article. I've been hearing about it for a while, but finally managed to read through it fully. Very well thought out and a brilliant write-up IMO.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

You beat me to it, the man is an oracle.