What the Fediverse Does(n't) Solve

Cory Doctorow's piece in Medium that traces some of the history of the internet to layout the cyclic pattern of community building, commodification, and enshittification, is well worth reading.

I found it via a link in a post on Mastodon, and I'm linking to it again, because I think it's very much worth reading.

https://doctorow.medium.com/what-the-fediverse-does-nt-solve-f2ea32e52afe

#internet #community #monetization #commodifying #capitalism #fediverse #mastodon #twitter

Everyone #bellyaching about the #Mastodon #learningcurve needs to remember #twitter was 'hard' at first. It got easy because you learned it. This will get easier too.

Also you were trained to think being manipulated & #attention_raped, often by bots, was normal. You were trained to think #commodifying & #monetising every online encounter was normal. It is not.

Now you need to learn to socialise with others w/o asking to be paid for it or holding up begging notices 'will eat dirt for likes'.

#introduction
Part 3: #TheDarkSide

You probably don't think much about what happens to a #foreclosure after the bank boots the family.

There is a whole industry there, managing #vacants, a dark niche of US #housing finance that cares little about anything except cooking #BalanceSheets & #commodifying a basic human need.Certainly didn't care about my #Maryland Judiciary Case Search appearances. Nope, these cats were happy to pay me shitty wages to trash-out & rekey their #distressedassets.