I left Facebook when I started seeing 20% of my feed cluttered by ads. It feels like it happened overnight, but it might have just been the threshold that I needed to finally notice the Enshittification. I did return long enough to “unlike” every page that wasn’t someone I knew personally, but at that point I had broken my dependency on social media and left for good after a few days. I wonder if there is a new law of the Internet that describes the pattern of platform degradation.
I'm a decade older than you and loved the Internet hard when it first appeared. I could look up the utmost peculiar things and find someone who had posted about it somewhere. Image search was especially wonderful to my artist eyes. They've fucked up and ruined it. It's very disappointing.
Someone please say what is the 25 year old science fiction novel that Corey Mentions all the time in these talks while describing Facebooks Metaverse. I'll come back in a few days to see any answers.
One last comment on Doctorow's thesis: Enforcement of antitrust on its own will not fix the problem. While breakups would be positive, that's because reducing their power, even to the point of powerlessness would be positive. I share his contempt of Friedman, but my contempt is not limited to the Chicago school. It's a mistake to think of the situation as plucky heroic corporations vs. big evil corporations. The users (including developers) are the creators of novel ideas. Empowering users will allow the "guerilla action" that Doctorow wants to happen spontaneously. These actions come not from "good" corporations, but from non-corporate or individual efforts. Ideas like the copyleft license are the tools to enable this, and the main policy prescription is the dismantling of IP. I.e., when Doctorow fantasizes about 100 vs 5 companies responding to regulation, he's observing the force which proceeds asymptotically to what is actually fundamental human rights, 8 billion agents capable of creation. Regulation of the digital commons, and the old idea of the common carrier, are sufficient regulation. The legal right of individual action the he mentions shows this progression. A great example, which Doctorow is probably familiar with, is FRAND licensing; "Free, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory", which is none of the above. It just enables cartels and encourages pay-to-play. 'Libre" licensing, otoh, is qualitatively different.
For people that regularly travel to large events and get sick (see "con crud"), normalization of personal defense is great. He doesn't have to "prove" anything.
@@nigelchin3286 hes moaning about how old he is/ feels as he follows the advice of natzis. If he dies with that thing on, maybe they'll bury him with it. RESPIRA!
It might have also been for his audience's sake. He probably just got off a plane (coming to the conference) and maybe didn't want to potentially spew viruses at his audience.
I left Facebook when I started seeing 20% of my feed cluttered by ads. It feels like it happened overnight, but it might have just been the threshold that I needed to finally notice the Enshittification. I did return long enough to “unlike” every page that wasn’t someone I knew personally, but at that point I had broken my dependency on social media and left for good after a few days.
I wonder if there is a new law of the Internet that describes the pattern of platform degradation.
❤ This is fabulous! Awesome lecture!
Excellent
Unfortunately the whole world has now been enshittified!
I'm a decade older than you and loved the Internet hard when it first appeared. I could look up the utmost peculiar things and find someone who had posted about it somewhere. Image search was especially wonderful to my artist eyes. They've fucked up and ruined it. It's very disappointing.
Could it be a response to ubiquitous facial recognition software?
Someone please say what is the 25 year old science fiction novel that Corey Mentions all the time in these talks while describing Facebooks Metaverse. I'll come back in a few days to see any answers.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
One last comment on Doctorow's thesis:
Enforcement of antitrust on its own will not fix the problem. While breakups would be positive, that's because reducing their power, even to the point of powerlessness would be positive. I share his contempt of Friedman, but my contempt is not limited to the Chicago school. It's a mistake to think of the situation as plucky heroic corporations vs. big evil corporations. The users (including developers) are the creators of novel ideas. Empowering users will allow the "guerilla action" that Doctorow wants to happen spontaneously. These actions come not from "good" corporations, but from non-corporate or individual efforts. Ideas like the copyleft license are the tools to enable this, and the main policy prescription is the dismantling of IP.
I.e., when Doctorow fantasizes about 100 vs 5 companies responding to regulation, he's observing the force which proceeds asymptotically to what is actually fundamental human rights, 8 billion agents capable of creation. Regulation of the digital commons, and the old idea of the common carrier, are sufficient regulation.
The legal right of individual action the he mentions shows this progression.
A great example, which Doctorow is probably familiar with, is FRAND licensing; "Free, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory", which is none of the above. It just enables cartels and encourages pay-to-play. 'Libre" licensing, otoh, is qualitatively different.
The unstoppable selfie
The inevitable selfie
"And the median income doubled." Ah yes, and I'd guess the median property tax and/or home price tripled.
sorr,y i see mazk i switch off, whats he trying to prove with that?
Bruh
For people that regularly travel to large events and get sick (see "con crud"), normalization of personal defense is great.
He doesn't have to "prove" anything.
@@logankennelly A famous standup very smartly brings her own microphone for every gig. (..."and the microphone smells like a beer.")
Maybe he’s immunicompromized? What does it have to do with you anyway?
Snowflake
Why is he wearing a mask? I'm not anti-mask by any means, I was a huge fan when it was appropriate. This just seems weird
Ehm... He's talking about something important here and all you can focus on is his mask? That's his personal choice
@@nigelchin3286 hes moaning about how old he is/ feels as he follows the advice of natzis. If he dies with that thing on, maybe they'll bury him with it. RESPIRA!
Or maybe he is SICK and don't want to contaminate ppl ? Why do you even care?
It might have also been for his audience's sake. He probably just got off a plane (coming to the conference) and maybe didn't want to potentially spew viruses at his audience.
Pretty much everyone I know who went to DC brought back 'rona except 2 guys who wore masks
He is wearing a mask. Not so bright. Can you see? His "personal choice" tells me enough I need to know without hearing what he has to say.
He's at a hacking conference whose theme that year was on face recognition data harvesting.
sadly ironic comment.
Disappointing on many levels.
Sorry, I've seen enough masks to last a lifetime.
Snowflake!
boo-hoo.