Es ist ein dreistufiger Prozess: Zuerst sind Plattformen gut zu ihren Nutzern. Dann missbrauchen sie ihre Nutzer, um die Dinge für ihre Geschäftskunden besser zu machen. Schließlich missbrauchen sie diese Geschäftskunden, um den gesamten Wert für sich selbst zurückzugewinnen. Dann gibt es eine vierte Phase: Sie sterben.

It’s a three-stage process: first, platforms 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, there is a fourth stage: they die.

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.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

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