This piece by @pluralistic on the enshittification of platforms is excellent all around:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Follow up with @mmasnick's observations on how (what else) "shareholder value" and Wall Street's short-term profit obsessions further enable and require this process:
Both are insightful and just spot on.
@jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick
> But Facebook has a new pitch. It claims to be called Meta, and it has demanded that we live out the rest of our days as legless, sexless, heavily surveilled low-poly cartoon characters.
Reminds me a lot of the Zager & Evans song "In The Year 2525".
Modern Internet annoys me we're too app/platform obsessed, we should support #ProtocolsNotApps. Otherwise history will repeat itself again.
@stuartl @jschauma @pluralistic
I think @mmasnick would prefer it if we called it #protocolsNotPlatforms.
@IronCurtain @jschauma @pluralistic @mmasnick
Both… #ProtocolsNotApps and #ProtocolsNotPlatforms -- although realistically a platform is an externally-hosted application though. Just one you're not allowed to host yourself. So the latter is redundant. ;-)
Jan Schaumann
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
Iron Curtain (Chiptunes)