YES. Let us know who your first-ever art shop customer/sponsor is when you get them. The crazymaking loop you're talking about in setting up your shop = enshittification. Such a wonderful term Cory Doctorow has given us for diagnosing what is going on. $20 is a big boost!
Thank you, I do take it as a big win! It’s confidence building!
And yes!!!
“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. That’s enshittification.”
“Facebook used to show you your friends’ posts. Then it started interleaving them with ads. Then it started charging your friends to show you their posts, and charging you to show your friends your posts. That’s enshittification.”
YES. Let us know who your first-ever art shop customer/sponsor is when you get them. The crazymaking loop you're talking about in setting up your shop = enshittification. Such a wonderful term Cory Doctorow has given us for diagnosing what is going on. $20 is a big boost!
I will!
Thank you, I do take it as a big win! It’s confidence building!
And yes!!!
“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. That’s enshittification.”
— Cory Doctorow, “Tiktok’s enshittification” (2023)
And…
“Facebook used to show you your friends’ posts. Then it started interleaving them with ads. Then it started charging your friends to show you their posts, and charging you to show your friends your posts. That’s enshittification.”