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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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A big point is that all written tech news has been going downhill for ages. Anandtech just closed, in case y'all missed it.
They simply can't keep up with SEO blogspam, social media and ad enshittification.
Gamers Nexus is this weird intersection of old and new, like an old school hardware outlet that grew up on YouTube. They're lucky in that respect, not many outlets are so fortunate.
Plus he has a following of people who like his take on being open and to the point. It feels like a breeze of fresh air sometimes.
There used to be tons of outlets like that. Techreport was stellar with methedology and transparency, I even wrote some articles as a side thing for HardOCP, and the owner of that site was very blunt.
Tech Jesus is awesome