Pluralistic: Middlemen Without Enshittification; The Bezzle Excerpt
The internet changed all that. It provided a way for anyone to create and distribute products without depending on middlemen, and, in some ways, allowed creators to circumvent middlemen altogether.
Erik Torenberg • Whoever Generates the Demand Captures the Value
aggregators are pure intermediaries.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Aggregators make it dramatically simpler and cheaper for suppliers to reach customers (which is why suppliers work so hard to be on their platform). This increases the types of new businesses that can be created by virtue of the aggregators existing (YouTube creators, Amazon merchants, small publications, etc.); regulators should take care to prese... See more