Enshittification is a robust theory but I don’t know how applicable it is to social media providers in particular. Many of them were never good to begin with.
I mean, the enshittification narrative for Twitter is: “microblogging service run by crypto obsessed guy and known for toeing the impersonation line became microblogging service run by crypto obsessed guy and known for toeing the impersonation line.”
Alex /
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2023-08-28 04:36:28
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