#coreydoctorow

Celle la était drôle en ce samedi matin! 😆

"After all, I'm a Cancer, and as everyone knows, Cancers don't believe in asteology" #CoreyDoctorow #Enshitification

Two current trends:
- Big pushback on #Windows11 adoption (this post only partially explains why);
- Vogue for concept of #enshittification from #CoreyDoctorow, for which Windows11 now stands as poster-child

Post from Josh Johnson - YouTube Hi Friends, Rolling Stone just wrote about what we’re building—and I say we because none of this happens without you. Every Tuesday, you show up. You watch, ...

I’ve said it before:
#JoshJohnson is a genius

He’s so gifted, he doesn’t hoard his comedy, he can afford to #CoreyDoctorow his talent & harvest the audience he gets from his generosity
He’s brilliant & seemingly an actual #GoodMan, something not common in Comedy

Well, that just gives new meaning to Cory Doctorow's enshitification. #coreydoctorow @eff.org #blackmirror

In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products. Network effects are typically positive feedback systems, resulting in users deriving more and more value from a product as more users join the same network. The adoption of a product by an additional user can be broken into two effects: an increase in the value to all other users (total effect) and also the enhancement of other non-users' motivation for using the product (marginal effect).

Diagram depicting the growth of utility in contrast to the size of a network.

According to #CoreyDoctorow, in time users will get fed up and leave. But during this period where the Network Effect keeps users glued to the service, the business pays next to nothing for crap content. So owners reap great financial rewards for publishing undesirable junk. #networkeffect

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[...]

This is what #CoreyDoctorow calls the ENSHITIFICATION of online services. He has his own long form on the topic worth reading. If the Harper's story by Liz Pelly is a closeup of #enshitification at Spotify, Doctorow's work is a general overview of the practice across many online services.