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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
(lemmy.world)
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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
Yeah that's what I did when reddit shit the bed. I'm spending the free time with books and getting back into gaming. It's an improvement really.
I can't point to any one hobby that truly picked up my reddit time, but I do feel like everything I'm doing in its place is more productive