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title: "Someday, we’ll all take comfort in the internet’s “dark corners”"
date: "2024-03-23T16:17-08:00"
description: "The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (Mar 24) in NYC (Mar 24), then in Anaheim and beyond!Platforms decay. Tech bosses, unconstrained by competition; regulation; ad blockers and other adversarial interoperability; and their own workers, will inevitably hollow out their platforms, using ultraflexible digital technology to siphon value away from end users and business customers, leaving behind the bare minimum of value to keep all those users locked in:https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfelIf you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/23/evacuate-the-platforms/#let-the-platforms-burnEnshittification is the inevitable result of high switching costs. Tech bosses are keenly attuned to opportunities to ..."
link: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-23-evacuate-the-platforms-let-the-platforms-burn-1ebbb7b9c982?source=rss-eba9888d741b------2
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