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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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.
In case you were wondering, yes, this is canonical #enshittification
Lure in business customers (publishers) by offering surpluses (algorithmic recommendation and an ensuing traffic funnel). Lock them in (by capturing their audience and blocking interop and logged-out reading).
Then rug the publishers, clawing back all the surpluses you gave them and more, draining them of all available capital and any margins they have, until they die or bite the bullet and leave.
I would also give good odds on this leading to a revivification of the "Pay us tens of thousands of dollars a month for a platinum checkmark and we'll actually show what you post to the people who asked to see it."
That will be pitched as the answer to publishers' complaints about not wanting to turn themselves into commodity Twitter inputs. It will be priced at the same (or more) as the revenues publishers expect to lose from being commodified, making it a wash.
All of this seems to me to be an "unfair and deceptive business practice" under Sec 5 of the #FTC
If I sign up to follow you because I want to see what you post, and Twitter shadowbans your posts unless they are formatted to maximize your dependence on Twitter, they have deceived me, and are being unfair to you.
This is *very* analogous to the #NetNeutrality debate, where a platform blocks or deprioritizes the things its users ask to see, based on whether the suppliers of those things are its competitors.
I've written about how an #EndToEnd principle for social media could be enforced under Sec 5 of the FTCA, how it would address this kind of sleazy practice, how it would be easy to administer, and wouldn't form a barrier to entry for new market entrants:
Hmm, so #darkpattern usage of deceptive #UIUX practices is becoming a court talking point for platform #Enshitification. Nice. π―β»οΈπ¨ββοΈπ©ββοΈβοΈ
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@infosec_jcp @pluralistic i meant the recent interview a few days ago at 15:42 where the screen is very much visible: https://youtu.be/hYymRU-bfpQ?feature=shared&t=942
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Hmmm, I also read right past that opening sentence. D'oh.
I don't follow how people (try to) monetize on Facebook, so can I get some confirmation: Not only did FB try to do this, but they successfully did it, and have been doing it for X years?
@pluralistic Word!
(of course, I didn't really expect better from The Elon... doesn't make it right, though!)
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@pluralistic I wonder if Twitter will be as helpful as YouTube, whose notification options include one for being told what to do as a creator.
I imagine this is why so many YouTube videos are now 35-45 minutes long. They are unwatchable, even though creators spend days or weeks on them. At some point it becomes a cruel joke on all users.
Hmm, this explains all those desperate employees at X talking about the checks they are getting to create 'long form boring videos' about their 95% down traffic from usual platform as a service that somehow monetized only ~0.7% of the Userbase because no one is there but... Bots? idk.
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A few years back, Many Youtube creators went to 10+ minute video. The algorithm promoted 10+ minutes, and longer videos could also have more than one ad. The amount of sudden padding for what often was 3-5 minutes of content was incredible and often unwatchable.
@rodneylives @rbellinger @pluralistic
Some of the sponsor sections can be 1/3 of the video!
@NIH_LLAMAS @rbellinger @pluralistic
In my next video, I'll press the power button.
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TBF, quite a lot of those shorter videos were also unwatchable.
@pluralistic they already tried and failed to do long form video at least
"Tucker Carlsonβs Twitter show is haemorrhaging viewers with 85% drop from first episode, reports say"
@pluralistic hasn't he already been pushing video pretty hard lately?
I think he was highlighting both pre-recorded and live streaming. Even did some game streams himself to show it off.
@FeralRobots @nerdseyeview @pluralistic
Let's remember WordPress only started in 2003.
Before then it was blogger.com etal, and everyone trying to corral you into their walled garden.
@gnoll110 @nerdseyeview @pluralistic
I was there. RSS existed. Blogger was one option; there were others. It wasn't turnkey, but then neither was WordPress, not really - not meaningfully more than, say, MoveableType.
"Walled Garden" usually means no interop, doesn't inherently mean easy data portability.
I saw ppl port Blogger to other platforms. Wasn't turnkey - but then it's not turnkey now. As audience broadens, standard for what constitutes 'turnkey' portability will get more rigorous.
@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
@TheGreatLlama @jef @pluralistic
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You say 'smirking mug', and I just now realized how much that image makes him look like a human face projected on a coffee cup.
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