"With the mass decentralization of culture, even while platforms are becoming increasingly centralized, there’s no way for a sane person to keep up" - Terry Nguyen on trends (and their death, of sorts - at the hand of TikTok).
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23065462/trends-death-subcultures-style?r=hbmw
I like the idea that cultural decentralization fuels centralization at the platform layer. Smart observation. Trends are the new fuel for platform capitalism.
Interesting also because it shifts the conversation from one focused purely on data - and there's a lot of talk about platform capitalism and our data.
Finally, if it's not just TikTok, but also #Mastodon / #Fediverse that get's fueled by trends, then what are the #Feditrends? It seems to me they are all self-referential with regard to the technology, and deep into #CoderCulture. What trends do you see in your part of the Fediverse?