By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026This was hugely successful - so successful, in fact, that Tiktok was able to *cheat*. 10/ 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026It overrides its own guesses about which of its billion cable-access channels you'd stare at the longest with a "heating tool" that lets Tiktok trick some theater kids into thinking that Tiktok was actually more suited to them than other platforms: pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/p... 11/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 172
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026For zuckermuskian social media bosses, Tiktok became an object of fierce envy. *Here* was the ultimate Tom Sawyer robo-fence-painter, a self-licking ice-cream cone that motivated people to convince each other to make money for *you*. 12/ 1110
