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https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#intermediation>
'Enshittification describes how platforms go bad, which is also how the
internet goes bad, because the internet is made of platforms, which is weird,
because platforms are intermediaries and we were promised that the internet
would
disintermediate the world:
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel>
The internet
did disintermediate a hell of a lot of intermediaries – that is,
"middlemen" – but then it created a bunch more of these middlemen, who
coalesced into a handful of gatekeepers, or as the EU calls them "VLOPs" (Very
Large Online Platforms, the most EU acronym ever).
Which raises two questions: first, why did so many of us end up flocking to
these intermediaries' sites, and how did those sites end up with so much
power?'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
