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The enshittification lifecycle of online platforms

How online platforms like Amazon, Facebook, Uber, TikTok, Twitter, etc. evolve as they grow

Stephen Knezovich

“Here is how platforms die: first, they 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.”


Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue links to a post over at Kottke.org (which links to a posts by tech writers Cory Doctorow at Wired and Mike Masnick at Techdirt).
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