enshittification

A pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Vendors first create high quality offerings to attract users, then degrade such offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize shareholder profits

by Daniel Santos · updated 2d ago

  • “The notion that you’re going to pay some subscription fee and then you’ll feature more prominently in the algorithm — there’s a name for that: It’s advertising,” said Jason Goldman, a former VP of product at Twitter from 2007 to 2010. “It’s just a different way of pricing it.”

    by Shirin Ghaffary

    Daniel Santos added 2d ago

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