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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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Man, if Google wasn't aggressively trying to make the experience of using their site for free as painful as possible, then I'd probably be happy to pay. But as long as their business model is making things as shit as possible for people who don't pay instead of trying to actually provide some real value for those who do, they can fuck themselves.