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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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[–] the_doktor@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nobody should be going on any of Google's data mining sites in the first place. Fuck YouTube and if that means we have to stop watching shitty "content creator" videos and random "funny" bullshit, good.

[–] H0neyc0mb@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YouTube is unmatched for some music content and a lot of other stuff.

[–] JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

For now- and they known it. Which is exactly why they know they can do whatever the fuck they want and everyone will eat their shit up.

Everyone bailed on Twitter when it went to shit and fucked everyone over.

I guess the line is drawn over good music videos…

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