The classic three step process of enshittification:

• Draw in users with good stuff and lock them in with the network effect

• Use the large user base as bait to draw and lock in businesses and other figures wanting to pay money to throw their message at said users

• Squeeze users and advertisers for all they’re worth until the exodus starts to a different platform.

It’s not really good or bad, but the natural way of things. Nobody can stay top dog forever. Eventually greedy idiots come into power overplaying their hand, circumstances change, tech evolves and somebody else takes first place

They’re laying down the road and try to get you to use it. The toll booths come soon enough when every alternative gets blocked as much as possible.

Because USA did exactly the same in the past. Take all the designs and ideas from somewhere else to build themselves up, then get ahead and turn around and forbid everyone else to use their stuff.

China is now doing following that same plan. It wasn’t even hard. All they had to do was to say to give the designs and they’ll producer them cheaper. Now they’re the factory of the world. We knew this was going to happen but short term profit before long term consequences, right? A few tariffs aren’t going to stop this.

Feels like it’s getting closer.

“Would you like to know more?”

The Facebook algorithm doesn’t show posts from the people you follow only in homeopathic quantities anyway. The rest is junk.

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Hold phone horizontally, extend and point arm 20° to the right and 45° above the horizon to unlock the app.

They have to put it into everything and have people and apps depend on it before the AI bubble pops so after the pop it’s too difficult to remove or break the dependency. As long as it’s in there they can charge subscription and fees for it.

Yes. Once a large enough concentration of users is achieved, the network effect kicks in and the users are locked in.

With that amount of users, it becomes a juicy target for businesses who colonize the place to milk said users. That’s assuming the original founders haven’t already been kicked out and replaced by suits who just invite businesses, influencers, creators, propagandist and so on in and charge them for the privilege. That locks in businesses.

With users and business both locked in, squeeze them for an they’re worth until the pain gets too big and the users leave for another platform. Go to step 1.

Of course they’re conveniently ignoring refineries catching fire or even gas station explosions. That seem to be regular events.

Some companies check how you keep your phone charged as an indicator of your trustworthiness for loans and credit

Nazi business means no business

Zuck is just following the orders he got at Mar-a-Lago.

It’s times, like, this I miss CommaHorror

Beyond All Reason maybe?

That’s basically AI pr0n for women.

But it’s pretty fun when the customer says your program does it wrong and you pull out that old Excel, plug in the data and their Excel does exactly the same as your program. It makes the discussion about billable hours a lot easier.

Dump to an Excel sheet and ask them to make a formula for “active”. A client that can’t use Excel deserves to be teased and be charged extra.