2023-05-08 20:08 UTC
@davidpierce@mastodon.social @zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com AMP was one of the technologies that got me to write about "fake markets", a way of identifying the coercive and extractive pattern of the tech giants, which echoes across not just publishing with AMP, but the house brands of ecommerce titans like Amazon, and even the on-demand and gig economy platforms like Uber. https://www.anildash.com/2017/03/01/tech_and_the_fake_market_tactic/
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@anildash@me.dm 2023-05-08 20:11
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Back in 2014, before Facebook officially named its effort to capture publishing as "Instant Articles", I offered up a fairly pithy assessment: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/526731697174630400 "Attention publishers: If you obey Facebook here & make your mobile content live within their platform, you are DUMB." At the time, I was worried I was being too direct and it would hurt my career or offend my friends who were media execs. As it turns out, I wasn't direct enough.