Enshittification
An economic lifecycle prevalent in platform capitalism, given its name by Cory Doctorow, where:
- The platform starts out very good to its users in order to drive adoption, by providing lots of value to users.
- It provides value to its business customers (e.g. advertising) to increase revenues, by abusing its users (e.g. selling their data).
- Abusing their business customers by taking back the value for itself.
- The platform becomes a useless pile of shit whose users and customers are locked into the platform as they slowly are drained dry by it.
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