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Gavin Shoebridge
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Kudra :maybe_verified:

@KiwiEV @Rjdlandscapes yup. it's actually from 2017, originally saw it on Xitter, and the follow up from FB (where he also posted it) is below. @oatmeal had over 4 million FB followers at the time, for reference.
3 Dec 2023 at 21:51 | Open on aus.social
RJD

@kudra @KiwiEV

I was going through the same pain at a smaller scale.

25k followers, photography wasnt really a business and I have a full time job but it just murdered any chance of that in the platform.

Hundreds of dollars per post to be seen by a fraction of followers was insane.

3 Dec 2023 at 21:52 | Open on mastodon.nz
Kudra :maybe_verified:

@Rjdlandscapes @KiwiEV if you think about it, pay for reach had always been the case for non-social media, but the bait-and-switch that FB was the most egregious in ramping up in social has always felt like a really, really nasty betrayal (though I saw it coming way ahead of the actual switch, and was so depressed that others couldn't see it).

I actually saw a graphic the other day that summed up why I always hated FB way more than the other tech giants, this is from @pluralistic 's book "The ​Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation"

@Rjdlandscapes @KiwiEV if you think about it, pay for reach had always been the case for non-social media, but the bait-and-switch that FB was the most egregious in ramping up in social has always felt like a really, really nasty betrayal (though I saw it coming way ahead of the actual switch, and was so depressed that others couldn't see it).
3 Dec 2023 at 22:04 | Open on aus.social
RJD replied to Kudra

@kudra @KiwiEV @pluralistic

I know they have to earn money on the platform. Nothing is free and I would rather pay than have my data tracked and stolen

But yes this was massively egregious and on every single post, to people who have already subscribed to my content...

3 Dec 2023 at 22:05 | Open on mastodon.nz
Kudra :maybe_verified: replied to RJD

@Rjdlandscapes @KiwiEV this is #enshittification. It doesn't have to be this way, but people have to refuse the walled gardens / silos en masse to change things. Fortunately, the Fediverse seems to finally be gaining more sustained traction. Be the change you want to see in the world! Just say NO to Farcebook and Xitter!

3 Dec 2023 at 22:09 | Open on aus.social
Ulrich Best replied to Kudra

@kudra What's the bull/cow symbol in the bottom left corner? Thanks!

3 Dec 2023 at 22:44 | Open on mastodon.online
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