Enshittification is "...a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holds each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."
Cory Doctorow
explains the "enshitification" of internet platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok). The mechanism also seems highly relevant to
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
When a platform starts, it needs users, so it makes itself valuable to users. Think of Amazon: for many years, it operated at a loss, using its access to the capital markets to subsidize everything you bought. It sold goods below cost and shipped them below cost. It operated a clean and useful search. If you searched for a product, Amazon tried its damndest to put it at the top of the search results.
All Hail the Panopticon Jailer Bot. The Powers That Be, have a PJB
And from the Man who gave us the word Enshittification This on Disintermediation the great lie of the Internet and Crypto Currencies.
The problem, in other words, isn't intermediation – it's power. The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power. Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law. This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they've formed cozy cartels, they can capture their regulators and commit rampant labor, privacy and consumer violations with impunity. That capture also lets them harness governments to punish smaller players that want to free workers, creators, audiences and customers from walled gardens. It also hands them a whip-hand over their workers, so that any worker who refuses to aid in these nefarious plans can be easily fired:
I find all corporate "Services " on the web hopeless beyond reason, without exception, and including Linkedin. The day that all corporate Monopoly Panopticon Jailer Bot services see their stock go to zero and their captured users free to join services that add value for the customer the better.
ALL HAIL THE PANOPTICON JAILER BOT. THE POWERS THAT BE, HAVE A PJB
LinkedIn has decided my account has been hacked and I can not access it for my own protection also I am supposed to give a form of government ID to verify my identity.
LinkedIn is not posing as one of the Jailers of the PJB but so clearly it obviously is. Corey Doctorow calls this process of greater coercion and less functionality Enshittification. Linkedin has composted down into a steaming enshittified heap of bullshit.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious
That? you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
I made a thread of my Web 3 update exercise today ending with a link to this David Bellamy lecture
And that is where the wheels came off, of any pretense of intellectual honesty and free speech on the enshittified Linkedin.
longhairedmusings.wordpress.com#GrubStreetJournal #PaperLi Automated Newspaper.#GRUBSTREETJOURNAL BREXIT: ‘The People Have Spoken – The Bastards’ Shared byRogerGLewis off-guardian.org – The whole brouhaha around Brexit has amply demonstrated the under-hand tactics used …
EXTENDED MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS. @THETEDNELSON #OIP #FLO #ALEXANDRIA #GRUBSTREETJOURNAL #HYPATIASEYEBROWSER” @DRADRIANBLAU
This is a wonderful starter for ten on Hermeneutics and Exegesis In the Multi-Media Age. Ted Nelsons Hypertext portends and is prescient on the HTTP/URL world of the Internet and interweb. Ted distinguishes the two, The Internet is an ocean and The Web, bound and limited to flaky old URLs Is a Boat whose bilge pumps, eject out mere electronic media making its imitation of print on paper. With Xanudocs and Transclusion, the provenance of Ideas in electronic documents provide the Timelines with both, forward; from the present date of any extant document, and also backwards into the mists of provenance. There are a plethora of terminology in the Xanadu world which Douglas Adams called hyper land in his excellent documentary of the same name Hyperland, Sideways and all manner of other exotic dimensions previously unimagined are catered for. David Bowie in an interview with Jeremy Paxman back in 1999 described the Internet Audience, Reader, Listener and watcher as a participant in the flow of ideas a meeting of the Regarding mind with the grey space of the internet emittances completing the picture Regardeur de Tableaux, And here we meet This Blog and its look at meaning and context and the motivation behind the Intended meaning of Historians. Of Course, Kubla khan decreed his pleasure dome and Coleridge offered it up as a Fragment. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/?s=OIP
All Hail the Panopticon Jailer Bot. The Powers That Be, have a PJB
