akkartik

@akkartik@lethallava.land

Trying to build a more resilient software eco-system. A thousand forks, ten thousand programmers, a million people.

I permit myself to express annoyance in this account. Can get ranty, preachy, lecture-y, tedious.

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fraying, to random
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Listen, I don't know how to tell you this, but absolutely every social media system that has a content ranking algorithm makes decisions like these.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads

akkartik,

@fraying One corollary: don't get too attached to any single company. Companies have a way of changing. I don't know if anyone has experienced the situation where you switch from monthly to annual payments for something, and then your support experience gets worse. In the Late Capitalism that we live in, companies are increasingly selected for their ability to arbitrage tiny bits of social engineering like this.

akkartik, to technology

@Judeet88 This thought might help you and me (https://lethallava.land/notes/9gp5hypoklkeflav; https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105737744499263260) feel good about ourselves, but we still suffer some harm by being part of a society that grew dependent on Youtube. Might not seem fair, but there's a problem here and it impacts us.

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

@technology

akkartik,

@ajsadauskas Minor correction: "becomes unprofitable" should be "becomes insufficiently lucrative".

Furthermore, how much revenue Google needs to make from each of its properties including Youtube keeps going up quarter after quarter thanks to insatiable shareholder appetite.

It's like sending a citizen each day to the nearby dragon to get it to leave you alone, but over time the price keeps going up.

@pluralistic @technology

akkartik, to random

Alright, fuck this: I will no longer be enabling Javascript for any more Substack newsletters. So if you are on it, know that this dialog is going to make me bounce.

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