Cory Doctorow personal blog

TikTok's Enshittification

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Points
67
HN comments
24
Submissions
2
Cited by
73 commenters

Society, Policy & CultureTech Industry & Business2023

On Hacker News

SubmittedTitle on HNPointsComments
Jan 22, 2023TikTok's Enshittification by bryanrasmussen6714
Jun 12, 2023Enshittification: How Platforms Die by cryoz6410

Cited in comments

Linked from 83 Hacker News comments by 73 different people, from Jan 2023 to Aug 2026.

Most recent:

Search every comment that links here →

More from Cory Doctorow

All 58 posts →

Related posts from the same era