“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
@cbroome @pluralistic yeah, really noticing this part lately:
"Searching Amazon doesn't produce a list of the products that most closely match your search, it brings up a list of products whose sellers have paid the most to be at the top of that search."
This plus the AI-driven enshittification (great word!) of Google results have made the Internet far less useful than it was ten years ago.
@kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic This seems to have significantly worsened in the last few months.
Something similar going on on LinkedIn. A job search returns a page of a dozen paid boosted jobs with only a couple actual results mixed in randomly.
Everyone taking profits at the expense of their product-"customers".
@sfierbaugh @kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic
Linked in is terrible, not sure what the paid service is like but you see a message 10 people have viewed profile but to figure out who you need premium.
If you're a job seeker can you really afford to do that, if you are employed and looking for opportunities then maybe you can.
I think Mastodon can do a really good linkedIn as it should be, so post you're looking for work, people will boost, post you are looking for staff and people will boost.
@specwill @sfierbaugh @kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic
Where I am I in the UK there is a business group NO ONE posts, I have posted to the group than gave up.
LinkedIn does provide tools for networking, it requires the human element to interact.
At least on here that happens, but I have followed / boosted a lot of people with Phds, maybe that kinda explains some of that on here, the value of collaboration.
@zleap @sfierbaugh @kentbrew @cbroome @pluralistic it's wild how LinkedIn tries to profit off the concept of "networking." But they've also been extracting value from in-house recruiters for a while, and I'm not sure the higher-ups and bean counters have cottoned on yet. A mass of laid off tech workers means they can keep it up longer.