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"What drives the [#enshitification] process? Two things. The first is the astonishing power of network effects. Nobody forces you to use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp or whatever. And you can always delete your account. But if all of your friends, colleagues, family members and significant others are on those systems [...]

The second [...] is technical – the fact that these systems are not interoperable: you can’t easily take your 'social graph' with you"

The rest: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/users-advertisers-we-are-all-trapped-in-the-enshittification-of-the-internet