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Re:The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok: Or how, platforms die by ryandrake on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:22AM (#35875746)
I don't think you can feature-cram your way to profitability. If you have a great product with loyal, paying users, and are still not profitable, then maybe the product isn't the problem. Jamming chat into your product is not going to make you profitable. Adding annoying notifications is not going to make you profitable. Moving all the buttons around to make a new UI is not going to make you profitable.

Marketing has the four P's. Software companies seem to just focus on changing one P (the most expensive and disruptive to change) and hoping for a miracle.

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Re:The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok: Or how, platforms die by zerbinxx on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:44PM (#35891613)
The thing is, a product that users love and a product that generates profits are frequently not the same product. You need to add more feature-cram to be profitable, and users hate feature-cram.
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