There have been multiple such posts on HN over the past week. For some reason this reminds me repeat spouse abuse victims who tend to knowingly preference relationships that result in violence. They claim one sentiment about lock-in but their overwhelming need to build a brand in an externally managed space will ultimately drive those sentiments into irrelevance.
The only way these posts will ever make sense is if people shift their attention from content/branding towards platform independence they build. I suspect that is just asking too much, but this actually used to be the norm before 2004.
I wasn't aware before 2004 so saying "platform independence" makes my head roll incredulously. But that's probably because the first things I think of are exclusive games and pre-streaming times movies and shows, although I always suspected that there must be some rich peoples TV & Radio that the rest of the us never gets to see or hear ^^ ...
Anyways. The industries can't build platform independent anymore. That's why indie and open source are such a thing in their domains.
And technically, they must be paired with an *absolute* abstinence from mainstream platforms and 2Big Corps in order to keep the subtext and the intended and unintended effects and side-effects of the "brainwash" away, as well as those gangbanging bytes and abstractions, from ads, the messages and the code. Otherwise the cancer spreads in bits and various low voltages over time and through the tiniest cracks in the systems, the brains and the minds.
All digital space is ionized. Channels build up fast and never really dissipate but almost nobody backtracks their origin and mechanisms of action anymore, even though reverse engineering is a thing; just not in the psycho-social and, meh, let's call it neuro-space.
Prediction and prediction markets are thing, though, as are markets for variations/mutations of the mind-virus and, not to forget, markets for methods of conformity enforcement and manipulation of teens and other current and future consumers.
Fuck that shit but that's, mostly, why nothing platform independent will ever happen again. Sabotage of any organic behavior and decision making.
I feel, intuitively, that they might make sense if they pay attention to Bluesky.
The general tenor of these postings is "Bluesky will turn to shit because […explanation…]", where the explanation ignores the work done by the Bluesky team. The authors write as though the Bluesky team has never heard about enshittification, or hasn't thought about it or about how to cope. That's unreal, and an unreal premise never leads to insightful conclusions.
LargoLasskhyfv|1 year ago
It's raining armies of trolls. Forests burn down. Cities drown.
The storm howls.
The wheel of time is moving on, over landscapes barren.
New stars rising, promises of another sun.
Masses warren.
The circle repeats, excitment, fun.
Critical mass reached, trust breached, trigger of the gun.
Another bunnie screeched...
austin-cheney|1 year ago
The only way these posts will ever make sense is if people shift their attention from content/branding towards platform independence they build. I suspect that is just asking too much, but this actually used to be the norm before 2004.
weMadeThat|1 year ago
Anyways. The industries can't build platform independent anymore. That's why indie and open source are such a thing in their domains.
And technically, they must be paired with an *absolute* abstinence from mainstream platforms and 2Big Corps in order to keep the subtext and the intended and unintended effects and side-effects of the "brainwash" away, as well as those gangbanging bytes and abstractions, from ads, the messages and the code. Otherwise the cancer spreads in bits and various low voltages over time and through the tiniest cracks in the systems, the brains and the minds.
All digital space is ionized. Channels build up fast and never really dissipate but almost nobody backtracks their origin and mechanisms of action anymore, even though reverse engineering is a thing; just not in the psycho-social and, meh, let's call it neuro-space.
Prediction and prediction markets are thing, though, as are markets for variations/mutations of the mind-virus and, not to forget, markets for methods of conformity enforcement and manipulation of teens and other current and future consumers.
Fuck that shit but that's, mostly, why nothing platform independent will ever happen again. Sabotage of any organic behavior and decision making.
Arnt|1 year ago
The general tenor of these postings is "Bluesky will turn to shit because […explanation…]", where the explanation ignores the work done by the Bluesky team. The authors write as though the Bluesky team has never heard about enshittification, or hasn't thought about it or about how to cope. That's unreal, and an unreal premise never leads to insightful conclusions.
brodouevencode|1 year ago
This is a pretty disgusting comparison.