Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000’s, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010’s and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.
Remeber when facebook was about “connecting with old friends” and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was “broadcast yourself” and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.
Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because “more future customers pay for the present ones”
Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000’s, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010’s and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.
Remeber when facebook was about “connecting with old friends” and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was “broadcast yourself” and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.
Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because “more future customers pay for the present ones”