The effect of #twiddling puts us up-and-coming writers in a dilemma that we didn't ask to be put in. We would like that qualitative feedback that Doctorow talks about, but our audience is a zygote that only divides based on a chain of arbitrary whims.

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This audience generator, this lottery/gacha/"market logic," is called #twiddling. It's not a fair game. I urge you, with every fibre of my being, to listen to this excerpt from a talk @pluralistic gave at DEF CON 32 last year about #enshittification:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&t=878s

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@Nonilex If properly constructed, such regulation could also ban "surge pricing" & all the other price #twiddling bullsh*t everyone is trying to roll out - or already perpetrating - right now, like raising prices if they have data showing that this particular customer just got paid, or their biometrics show that the customer is in a hurry, or hungry etc.

It's incredibly predatory & definitely fits the descriptor of "price gouging" & it's likely to be obscured by tech; it needs to be hit hard.

@jay_peper Sounds like #twiddling , one of the unfair advantages gained thru #enshittification .

Platformism is the same as conservativism: "in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

#FrankWilhoit #Twiddling #SelectiveDisruption #RIPPowerVentures

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

@pluralistic

Does your business, or do your investments, depend in #twiddling, #enshittification, and other modern variations of the #EnclosureActs? Are you sure that's a sound strategy? One that won't blow up in your face?

(Reminds me of why I had such a bad feeling when they announced we were moving to a service economy…and service promptly begin to deteriorate. Cory Doctorow once again explicates some of why and how.)