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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026

It 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/

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Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026

For 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026

Facebook, Insta and X took hard pivots away from showing you things that people you loved wrote in favor of short videos of people whose parents didn't give them enough affection in childhood, desperately shoving lemons up their noses to win your approval (and a revshare with the platforms). 13/

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