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From https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ "Here is how platforms die: First,
by some_furry 10mo ago
From https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
We are on step 2: then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
- matthewmacleod 10mo agoIt is not abuse to charge what amounts to a relatively small fee for a useful service.
- some_furry 10mo agoIt's not "a relatively small fee for a useful service". It's an unnecessary fee to use self-hosted (i.e., not GitHub-hosted) components in CI pipelines.
- matthewmacleod 10mo agoThat’s the service. What aren’t you getting? The service is the execution and orchestration of CI jobs.