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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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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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This is verifiably just false.
How much does food cost you a day? Maybe $25, depending on what you buy.
How much does operating a 1000-user lemmy-instance cost for a day? Around $0.0003 per person per day.
Trust me I did the math on this one. Internet services are not expensive. Internet corporations just try to extract a lot of money out of you.
$25 a day for food? USD???
Yeah, seems high tbh.
Depends on where you are and what you're eating, tbh.
If my wife and I eat out once that's 20something right there for just that one meal that one day, for example
And how much time?
How many hours does it take to fill admin roles? How many hours does it take to fill mod roles?
What if you had to pay them?
Lemmy is currently at a scale that it can be sustained by volunteers only. That will change as it grows.
I run my servers for free on the always free tier of oracle cloud. (It feels like hell froze over, but for over a year I am using a free service provided by tech satan and my soul is still intact, I think.)