Alek<p>&quot;With the mass decentralization of culture, even while platforms are becoming increasingly centralized, there’s no way for a sane person to keep up&quot; - Terry Nguyen on trends (and their death, of sorts - at the hand of TikTok).</p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23065462/trends-death-subcultures-style?r=hbmw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/the-goods/23065462/tre</span><span class="invisible">nds-death-subcultures-style?r=hbmw</span></a></p><p>I like the idea that cultural decentralization fuels centralization at the platform layer. Smart observation. Trends are the new fuel for platform capitalism.</p><p>Interesting also because it shifts the conversation from one focused purely on data - and there&#39;s a lot of talk about platform capitalism and our data.</p><p>Finally, if it&#39;s not just TikTok, but also <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> / <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> that get&#39;s fueled by trends, then what are the <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/Feditrends" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Feditrends</span></a>? It seems to me they are all self-referential with regard to the technology, and deep into <a href="https://101010.pl/tags/CoderCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CoderCulture</span></a>. What trends do you see in your part of the Fediverse?</p>