#disintermediation — Public Fediverse posts

"#Platforms have emerged as the endemic form of internet-based business, which is ironic, because a platform is just an #intermediary – a company that connects different groups to each other. The internet's great promise was #disintermediation – getting rid of intermediaries. We did that, and then we got a whole bunch of new intermediaries."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/