K.G. Schneider
My camera shoots fascistsIt's fun watching people on different Big Social sites come to the realization that they have been working for free for billionaires all this time.
Even funner is watching the billionaires openly explain this relationship better than I ever could.
Mike D
Led By Gilded Fools@Mikal Cory Doctorow wrote a great piece on this about the "Enshittification of TikTok" (but applies to all platforms)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
and, Principles to protect users from decaying platforms
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/soft-landings/
Joanna Czechowska@Mikal Some even pay the billionaires so they can work for them.
@JoCzechowska
And most will look at you funny if you point out that maybe this all could be different, that laboring in the open pit data mine for oligarchs is...problematic.
I don't really care anymore if I'm missing out on what the cool kids are doing elsewhere. At this point I'll stay and hang out here with the good weirdos.