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Ads and jacking up prices. Netflix anyone?
This is missing the crucial evil step of “buy out competition to monopolize the concept”
In all honesty, as soon as you start seeing the signs of step two, drop whatever service it is. If enough people actually practiced what they preached; talking with your wallet and for the model that just requires views or clicks did it, things would actually change.
100% straight out of Cory Doctorow’s book, Enshittification.
Ads? What ads? I see no ads whatsoever.
Yes, that includes on my phone. :)
Same. “But that’s too hard!” is what I hear most.
Ive never heard that. People always just ignore when I ask or point it out, or agree they need to fix it.
If he was saying in the last panel “I’m a victim of class warfare” the cartoon would be perfect.
What I dislike in this concept is the idea of corporations being good in the beginning. They never were. Most big tech services come from the very beginning with clear threats to many things if they rise to become a monopoly, but people turn a blind eye to it and dismiss anyone talking about. Then, years later, they get like “oh no, the corporations are becoming enshittified!”
Ah… YouTube
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be hated
They aren’t hated. They have billions of users (and tens of billions of bot accounts) all rattling around trying to run this same influence model from within the various platforms.
In so far as everyone complains about everything constantly, they are a source of perpetual complaints. But the idea that people can spend hours of their lives on YouTube and then claim “I hate this”… No you don’t. You obviously don’t hate it. You love it. You love your slop.
You’ve obviously never been an addict.
You can absolutely hate a thing you’re using and feel like quitting isn’t possible.
We could say that “hate” isn’t a complete accounting of the feelings in a complex situation, maybe.
You’ve obviously never been an addict.
Obviously.
You can absolutely hate a thing you’re using and feel like quitting isn’t possible.
I’ve been told I’m not an addict. I’ve been told social media is addictive. I’ve been told I’m on social media. I’m rattling around the contradictions.
Addicts can also love the thing and not feel like quitting, because the thing they’re addicted to gives them a feeling of empowerment or a release from anxiety.
Social media fulfills a craving for socializing that humans naturally desire. It offers to fulfill this natural desire through a low-cost, easy-access interface. And it feeds this craving continuously, often artificially through synthetic interactions with no real counterparty. And it does so with the goal of influencing the audience’s understanding of the world and consumption habits, two things humans also natively seek.
Talking about social media like an addiction misses the core drive towards its adoptions and proliferation. You might as well say you’re addicted to food and air as to say you’re addicted to text and video. These are sensory stimulations everyone is always pining for, whether or not a phone screen is the delivery mechanism.
The challenge people face isn’t the social media, it is the absence of non-social media as an alternative. We’re caged animals looking out the window and you’re complaining about “window addiction”.
