{"id":4938,"date":"2023-10-03T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-googles-enshittification-memos-03-oct-2023"},"modified":"2023-10-03T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:46:58","slug":"pluralistic-googles-enshittification-memos-03-oct-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-googles-enshittification-memos-03-oct-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Google's enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Google’s enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can’t stop telling on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Google’s enshittification memos (permalink) When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse. Think about Unity President Marc Whitten’s nonpology for his company’s disastrous rug-pull, in which they declared that everyone who had paid good money to use their tool to make a game would have to keep paying, every time someone downloaded that game: The most fundamental thing that we\u2019re trying to do is we\u2019re building a sustainable business for Unity. And for us, that means that we do need to have a model that includes some sort of balancing change, including shared success. https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/unity-walks-back-policies-lost-trust\/ “Shared success” is code for, “If you use our tool to make money, we should make money too.” This is bullshit. It’s like saying, “We just want to find a way to share the success of the painters who use our brushes, so every time you sell a painting, we want to tax that sale.” Or “Every time you sell a house, the company that made the hammer gets to wet its beak.” And note that they’re not talking about shared risk here –…Pluralistic: Google's enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Google’s enshittification memos: Truly, Big Tech can’t stop telling on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[973,739,300,2321,1006,4729,4712,811,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}