If you're not blue, your posts just don't get shown to the people who subscribe to you. This is something Facebook did a long time ago and YouTube has done this as well. Once the artists are locked in, then they can start shifting surplus to themselves. The first five screens of any Amazon search now are 50% ads. And their stuff. Yeah. It's all like, it's all plus their stuff, 50% ads plus their stuff. Right. What's the alternative to things like at a finding the auditors? There's this fetiverse alternatives like Mastodon. Because it's gotten so quiet. I'm not using it as much. But definitely it's becoming
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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