Now that Twitter is a Junkyard, I Need a Way to Deal with the Twitter Posts Cited on this Blog
“Live, ongoing connections to people – not your old posts or your identifiers – impose the highest switching costs for any social media service,” argues Cory Doctorow in a recent post. Well, yeah, but hear me out.
#collapse #enshittification #financialization #hyperfinancialization #mutualAid #socialCollapse #socialMedia #switchingCosts #Wordpress
🕵️♂️ Investigation: In 2021, Microsoft offered the US gov free cybersecurity upgrades, deepening reliance on its services due to high switching costs. 🖥️🔐 #Microsoft #CyberSecurity #USGov #TechNews #GovernmentContracts #CyberDefense #TechReliance #SwitchingCosts #DigitalSecurity
#corydoctorow on😊 #MastoSunday #MustShare
Bluesky & enshittification
"to resist #enshittification, you've to impose #switchingcosts on yourself. Tt's where #federation comes in. On #Mastodon u can easily leave one #server & go to another, & everyone u follow & everyone who follows u will move over to e new server.. I don't know why #Bluesky hasn't added e federation systems tt wld enable #freedom of exit.. So long as Bluesky can be a trap, I won't let myself be tempted"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
"The CFPB economists used a very conservative methodology, so the number is likely higher, but let's stick with that figure for now. The switching costs of changing banks – determining which bank has the best deal for you, then transfering over your account histories, cards, payees, and automated bill payments – are costing everyday Americans more than half a billion dollars, every year.
Now, the CFPB wasn't gathering this data just to make you mad. They wanted to do something about all this money – to find a way to lower switching costs, and, in so doing, transfer all that money from bank shareholders and executives to the American public.
And that's just what they did. A newly finalized Personal Financial Data Rights rule will allow you to authorize third parties – other banks, comparison shopping sites, brokers, anyone who offers you a better deal, or help you find one – to request your account data from your bank. Your bank will be required to provide that data.
I loved this rule when they first proposed it:"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/#personal-financial-data-rights
#SwitchingCosts #USA #Banking #Banks #FinancialData #Interoperability #OpenData
This doesn't explain why that #ProprietaryPlatform (#Discord, #Slack, MS Teams, etc.) were initially chosen for that specific group of people. The person who made that decision did it for other reasons.
But it does explain what you asked: Why is this so popular, i.e. why are *so many* people continuing to use it?
#NetworkEffect and #SwitchingCosts. Nothing much to do with the properties of that particular platform.
#ProtocolsNotPlatforms avoids those problems.
#SwitchingCosts: One people are on #Discord or #Slack or whatever, they've got their group meeting there, often primarily and by default.
It's a #ProprietaryPlatform, so they're hostage. Leaving would require abandoning *that group* of people. For many people, they really need or want to stay in that social group.
And that means they must stay on the platform with the proprietary bloated surveillance client.
And, worse, bring new people in and hold *them* hostage too.
@pganssle
> How is this platform [#Discord] so popular?
I lean on the old reliable explanations:
Network effect, brings people in.
Switching costs, prevent them from leaving.
@pluralistic has made clear that #SwitchingCosts are a major impediment to big name accounts leaving #twitter, #Facebook, #YouTube, etc.
But, there are also #NotSwitchingCosts for refusing to adopt #fedi
For example, I've stopped all donations to my favorite #blog sites that continue to maintain #CSM accounts and cross post corporate cancer.
You can too.
It was too late a while ago.
The youth exodus from #TikTok is already underway. Gen Z is abandoning it in droves, leaving their parents (Millennials) the largest demographic remaining.
As usual, children seek to hang out in places their parent's generation are *not*. TikTok lost that a while ago.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/21/involuntary-die-hards/#evacuate-the-platforms
#Enshittification #PlatformExodus #VendorLockIn #SwitchingCosts
🔴🟡Switching costs
by Jeremy Keith @adactio @adactio
#enshittification #react #javascript #frameworks #frontenddevelopment #ux #dx #competition #monopoly #switchingcosts #React
Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated.
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation #SwitchingCosts #UlyssesPacts
Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
📝by Cory Doctorow
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Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
#BigTech #Capitalism #NetworKEffects #SwitchingCosts #Economics: "While it’s possible in theory for competition to work well even when network effects and switching costs exist, it’s probably best to assume that they are gumming up the works. Paul Klemperer, one of the pioneers of switching-cost models, has argued that antitrust authorities should try to ensure compatibility between rival platforms, reducing switching costs and pushing against the ability of any one company to monopolise a network.
That means maximising interoperability: the ability to send posts to your Facebook friends, and read their posts, even if you’ve decided to leave Facebook and use a different social network; the ability to take your eBooks and audiobooks out of Amazon’s ecosystem (you paid for them, after all); the ability to put any kind of ink in your printer, any kind of razor blade on your handle and any kind of bread in your toaster.
Interoperability cannot be guaranteed by law. There are too many hard cases, too many grey areas, too many legitimate technical obstacles. But regulators can operate with a presumption in favour of interoperability, as they do for switching phone providers or making transfers between banks."
https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc
"… #antitrust authorities should try to ensure #compatibility between rival platforms, reducing #SwitchingCosts and pushing against the ability of any one company to monopolise a network. …regulators can operate with a presumption in favour of #interoperability, as they do for switching phone providers or making transfers between banks."
https://www.ft.com/content/acaf3fb1-d971-48ad-8efb-c82787cdd2fc?sharetype=blocked
#enshittification #NetworkEffects
