Thank you for sharing. This post gave me a lot to think about as someone who is just starting out, and now questioning how much energy to put into social media.
The world is fucked up, and maybe we are getting older and we disagree on the direction of the world is taking hehe I do for sure. Also, everything that you have said resonates so much. I've been a bit more active than usual on IG trying to share my work, produce a bit more while having fun, but yesterday I decided I must stop after learning all our content in IG is going to be used to train Meta AI, depending where you located.
Anyway, thanks a lot for writing this newsletter ✨
I read an important article yesterday about Cory Doctorow and “enshittification”. Basically it is about big tech’s business strategy and how they get us hooked eg. on Facebook, Instagram etc by luring us in the beginning – like a honey trap. And now we think that we cannot leave (I cannot leave Facebook because I am involved in a few important groups there – or at least I think so. And what about my followers on Instagram? All the work that migrating to another platform …). At this point we are slowly getting more and more shit. They want us to pay a monthly fee and if you don’t, they limit your reach to a small percentage of your followers. The algorithms don’t serve us, they serve the stockholders and investors.
The article is in danish, but I am sure that you can look him up on the internet.
Thank you for sharing. This post gave me a lot to think about as someone who is just starting out, and now questioning how much energy to put into social media.
The world is fucked up, and maybe we are getting older and we disagree on the direction of the world is taking hehe I do for sure. Also, everything that you have said resonates so much. I've been a bit more active than usual on IG trying to share my work, produce a bit more while having fun, but yesterday I decided I must stop after learning all our content in IG is going to be used to train Meta AI, depending where you located.
Anyway, thanks a lot for writing this newsletter ✨
I read an important article yesterday about Cory Doctorow and “enshittification”. Basically it is about big tech’s business strategy and how they get us hooked eg. on Facebook, Instagram etc by luring us in the beginning – like a honey trap. And now we think that we cannot leave (I cannot leave Facebook because I am involved in a few important groups there – or at least I think so. And what about my followers on Instagram? All the work that migrating to another platform …). At this point we are slowly getting more and more shit. They want us to pay a monthly fee and if you don’t, they limit your reach to a small percentage of your followers. The algorithms don’t serve us, they serve the stockholders and investors.
The article is in danish, but I am sure that you can look him up on the internet.
I believe it is time to leave. But where to?
Hey, I’m famous. Liesbet is from a family of Artists : joke: https://www.instagram.com/jokeboudens?igsh=bm1hZnNiOHJ3NnVi Kristoffel:a stone carver: https://www.handmadeinbrugge.be/makers/kristoffel-boudens and Pieter: https://www.handmadeinbrugge.be/makers/kristoffel-boudens they are from Brugge (more info about lettering in Brugge: http://penandinkcalligraphy.blogspot.com/2019/10/most-calligraphers-will-have-heard-that.html?m=1 )