Cory DoctorowOct 5, 2023

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."

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Show threadatlanOct 5, 2023
@pluralistic Interesting how he makes it sound like these are the decisions of an autonomous entity and not his own.
Show threadOggie

@atlan @pluralistic It reminds me of police reports where the vehicle struck and a weapon was discharged.

Honestly it also reads like someone better at the written word is working on his posts, too

Oct 5, 2023 at 3:42pmWeb