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   CassandraZeroCovid (cassandrazerocovid@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 00:17:46 JST CassandraZeroCovid

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   • Cory Doctorow

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   "The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a 40-year coma. Well, now antitrust is rising from its slumber and we have work for it to do."

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 00:17:47 JST Cory Doctorow

     Internet platforms have reached end-stage enshittification, where they claw back the goodies they once used to lure in end-users and business customers, trying to walk a tightrope in which there's just enough value left to keep you locked in, but no more. It's ugly out there.

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     If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

     https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/soft-landings/#e2e-r2e

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