{"id":5066,"date":"2023-10-15T03:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T03:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-leaving-twitter-had-no-effect-on-nprs-traffic-14-oct-2023"},"modified":"2023-10-15T03:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T03:39:32","slug":"pluralistic-leaving-twitter-had-no-effect-on-nprs-traffic-14-oct-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-leaving-twitter-had-no-effect-on-nprs-traffic-14-oct-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR&#039;s traffic (14 Oct 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR&#8217;s traffic: The brittle equilibrium of stage three enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR&#8217;s traffic (permalink) Enshittification is the process by which a platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three): https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys Enshittification isn&#8217;t merely a form of rent-seeking &#8211; it is a uniquely digital phenomenon, because it relies on the inherent flexibility of digital systems. There are lots of intermediaries that want to extract surpluses from customers and suppliers &#8211; everyone from grocers to oil companies &#8211; but these can&#8217;t be reconfigured in an eyeblink the way that purely digital services can. A sleazy boss can hide their wage-theft with a bunch of confusing deductions to your paycheck. But when your boss is an app, it can engage in algorithmic wage discrimination, where your pay declines minutely every time you accept a job, but if you start to decline jobs, the app can raise the offer: https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/04\/12\/algorithmic-wage-discrimination\/#fishers-of-men I call this process &#8220;twiddling&#8221;: tech platforms are equipped with a million knobs on their back-ends, and platform operators can endlessly twiddle those knobs, altering the business logic from moment to moment, turning the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/10\/14\/freedom-of-reach\/\">Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR&#039;s traffic (14 Oct 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR&#8217;s traffic: The brittle equilibrium of stage three enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013,&hellip; <\/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":[1611,739,300,3894,2074,1582,4884,4712,811,12,1577,341,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066"}],"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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}