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Chris Berube

πŸ‘€ Speaker
762 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

99% Invisible
Enshittification

Right.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

So you're finding other fans of 80s baseball cards.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

You're all becoming friends.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

You're building up this community.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

But then you cannot leave.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

Like maybe the platform is buying up all the competition.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

Right.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

So there's nowhere else to go or they make it hard to transport your group somewhere else.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

And maybe like people don't want to leave because you have years of thrilling 80s baseball card conversations built up.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

And then you get stuck.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

Right.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

So if you leave, you're going to lose all of these friends that you've built up and you become locked in.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

And that's when the big companies will start to make things shittier.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

They in shitify.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

And instead of serving the users, they will serve businesses.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

Right.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

They'll make things worse for you.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

They will sell your private data.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

They will let the platform become filled with these kind of spammy, annoying ads that you can't get rid of.

99% Invisible
Enshittification

So here's the other thing with Corey's argument.