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They're going to do what Tumblr did with the same exact results for the same exact reasons.
Comment by Dudesan at 25/05/2023 at 20:27 UTC*
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First, [internet platforms] are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Then, they die.
I call this *enshittification*, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
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One major manifestion of this occurs with platforms that reach initial success by being friendly to marginalized communities and NSFW content creators, then later decide to throw those groups under the bus to become more attractive to advertisers.