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Enshittification comes naturally from capital invested or *the leverage* from capital invested? 

Cory Doctorow vs Molly White

💬 comes naturally from capital invested or *the leverage* from capital invested?

@pluralistic vs @molly0xfff

(framed as "vs" just to get some reply points from people and potential answers about comment below...)

💬 Molly says
"Cory Doctorow provides his perspective on Bluesky, including on their recent funding round. I particularly like his point: “Plenty of people have commented that now that a VC is holding Bluesky's purse-strings, enshittification will surely follow (doubly so because the VC is called ‘Blockchain Capital,’ which, at this point, might as well be ‘Grifty Scam Caveat Emptor Capital’). But I don't agree with this at all. It's not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it's leverage that enshittifies a service.”

📋 Website Post by @molly0xfff citationneeded.news/issue-69/

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