We are specifically talking about the user visible pages of these companies and their “enshitification”
> Facebook's business was providing a common platform for people that know each other to share publicly. Twitter's business was a billboard to share what they're doing. Google's business was to provide a way to find things on the web.
They may have other businesses in banner ads but I’m specifically responding to the question,
> do all platforms go through this? if so, it's very sad.
by trying to make the point that if their business is selling attention, then pissing off end users - thereby reducing the supply of attention - is bad management.
Facebook makes money by creating a product that attracts a bunch of people to use it, and then they sell ads.
The whole thing falls apart if they don’t do #1 properly.