TikTok wants to grow their shopping business by 10x this year. I don’t see how this won’t lead to further enshitification of the user experience.
It’s already to the point where I can’t tell if I’m watching an ad or user content anymore when I use the app.
@carnage4life making you horizontal-scroll past the shopping tab to switch between fyp and following was bad enough. but lately it seems like they're doubling up an regular ad with a sponsored post, back to back, and showing them more frequently.
plus side, makes it easier to put down.
@carnage4life so yes, TikTok's going the way of internet things.
Also, the term you're looking for isn't Doctorow's attempt at self-aggrandizement and reification of capitalist bullshit about how somehow, somewhere, there's a capitalism that doesn't inevitably lead to this.
It's market power, and people were writing about it back when Doctorow was in primary school.