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The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
Jeremy Gordontheguardian.com
Explaining 'inshittification' using Facebook, focusing on Stage 1: attracting users and locking them in with high switching costs.
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So here's the Facebook case study. In stage one of Enshitification, firms are good to their end users, but they find a way to lock those end users in. So Mark Zuckerberg, he rolls out the gate with his first public offering beyond just kids with a .edu American college address, but the whole world.
And he says, look, I know all you people have
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Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he argues, a “user-centered” approach to design has been replaced by what he has taken to calling a “corporation-centered” approach. Rather than optimizing for the user’s experience, it optimizes for the... See more
Kyle Chayka • Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker
The Browser
thebrowser.com
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