@mmasnick 🥥 I thought that the original #CoryDoctorow article about #Enshittification was one of the best think-pieces I had read in the past 30 years.
This response to it by #MikeMasnick is a close second -- but only because it was written after Doctorow's.
Of course no tech bro is going to give up his venality to follow Masnick's 7 rules, and I wish that Doctorow had spelled it "enshitification," but those 2 things will have to wait until I rule the planet. 🥥

"There seems to be more and more wrong stuff being said about Section 230 nearly every day, but hopefully this covers most of the big ones. If you see someone saying something wrong about Section 230, and you don’t feel like going over all of their mistakes, just point them here, and they can be educated."

#MikeMasnick, 2020

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

#TechRegulation #Section230 #UserGeneratedContent #moderation

> free for our use case. But that freedom...

The lack of a price is not freedom, it's patronage.

> ... came with a different kind of price

Patronage always does ;)

#MikeMasnick #DataFarms

"[We now use] both Plausible and Matomo (self-hosted) to make sure that we’re much more protective of the privacy of Techdirt’s readers. We actually pulled Google Analytics off the site in late January. But then we noticed something odd. In February, Google Analytics was still showing up even though we had pulled the tags. It turned out that, via the new ad partner we had, as soon as ads via Google show up on our site Google Analytics code showed up along with it."

#MikeMasnick, 2021

#TechDirt

"I think we used MeasureMap before Google bought it and wrapped it into Google Analytics. And, to be clear, Google Analytics worked decently well, had a nice interface (much nicer than most competitors) and, of course, was free for our use case. But that freedom came with a different kind of price — which is that Google was tracking users on our site. And that was becoming both more and more problematic, and more of a nuisance."

#MikeMasnick, 2021

https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/27/techdirt-is-now-entirely-without-any-google-ads-tracking-code/

#DataFarms

"Some Tricks To Making #Mastodon Way More Useful"
"Make use of lists... In my case, I’ve created four lists: “must read,” “journalism,” “law,” and “tech.” ... I put the accounts I want to make sure I don’t miss into “must read” and those are usually the first thing I’ll check when checking in on Mastodon. Then I’ll bounce between the other lists and the home feed (of everyone I follow). https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/29/some-tricks-to-making-mastodon-way-more-useful/ @mmasnick #MikeMasnick #Fediverse #MastodonTips #FediverseTips #MastodonMigration

"... harassment to hate speech to threats to trolling to obscenity to doxxing to spam and more... is in the eye of the beholder. For example, one person’s attempt to express an opinion strongly can be seen by the recipient as harassment. Neither party may be “wrong” per se, but leaving it up to each platform to adjudicate such things is an impossible task, especially when dealing with hundreds of millions of pieces of content per day."

#MikeMasnick

"This would not entirely prevent anyone from using the platform from speaking, but if the more popular interfaces and content moderation filters chose, entirely voluntarily, not to include them, the power and impact of their speech would be more limited. This, then, presents a more democratic approach, in which the marketplace of filters is enabled to compete."

#MikeMasnick, 2019

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

"Moving to a world where protocols and not proprietary platforms dominate would solve many issues currently facing the internet today. Rather than relying on a few giant platforms to police speech online, there could be widespread competition...

In short, it would push the power and decision making out to the ends of the network, rather than keeping it centralized among a small group of very powerful companies."

#MikeMasnick, 2019

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech