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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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It was, until I found out that Slate was created by an ex-Amazon manager and their prime investor is Jeff Bezos.
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Per their Wikipedia page.
I was concerned about that too, so I did some digging. I don't think it's anything beyond angel investment currently. No stocks (slate is private), and no obvious strings.
My guess is, it's to ensure slate sticks around long enough to be a target for future plans. Maybe an amazon slate fleet?
Could also be the billionaire class equivalent of trying to start a pissing match with the existing auto makers.
Pissing match. Elon and Beez are famously pricks to each other. Beez often is an angel investor into any credible threat to Tesla or SpaceX, presumably, because pissing match.