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Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them. To
by escapecharacter 2y ago
Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them.
To some people this might look like consumers are more conservative, but really it's just hidden dark patterns keeping them in the big platforms.
I really wish the US government was more pro-business competition; they're merely pro-business in terms of ensuring existing winners continue to win. Across the pond, the EU seems to get this with measures like GDPR which make it actually easier to port between platforms.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them. > To some people this might look like consumers are more conservative, but really it's just hidden dark patterns keeping them in the big platforms. I personally observe that people have quite different "sensitivities" to this phenomenon. It might be true that such people exist, but at least in my "echo chamber" it's rather exactly the other way: the more dark pattern such people observe, and the more they feel "jailed" by these large platforms, the more they are willing to leave the platform - just out of spite. Thus, at least many people of my "echo chamber" show exactly the opposite behaviour from what you claim and the platforms intend. Thus, I believe the conservatism is a different phenomenon: people become less willing to try out new things because they observed far too often that a new interesting service turned more and more into a dark jail over the years.
- intalentive 2y agoThe US government does business with men who say, “Competition is for losers”.