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 threadCory DoctorowOct 5, 2023

Next will be: "We block links to other sites because they might be malicious."

Then some kind of "#PivotToVideo."

Probably not video (though who knows?) but some other feature that a major rival has, which Twitter will attempt to defraud its captive, commodified suppliers into financing an entry into.

Show threadKevin Marks
@pluralistic they've already tried pivot to video a couple of times - hence the Tucker Carlson show there. Blocking links to other sites, as well as slowing them is already part of the playbook.
Oct 5, 2023 at 3:42pmWeb
Show thread@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyOct 5, 2023

@KevinMarks @pluralistic

But DeSantis launched and then... Titanic's? idk about the 🐔 or 🍗 day got skipped iBet re: Tucker 🐔