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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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The internet has always been unusable without an ad blocker. The difference now is that it's not really usable at all. Somehow major multi billion dollar companies have decided it's completely okay to have broken-ass websites that don't work. This is especially true if they're trying to push an app. The major websites like Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok actually go out of their way to break the fuck out of their mobile site to try to push people onto their app. The biggest fucking problem is that the strategy works. People are desperate, stupid, little animals, and they'll do whatever they're told to do to get their little hit of entertainment and dopamine. The internet is dead. Long live the internet!
I'm old enough (as are, I imagine, a good percentage of lemmings) to remember when you actually could use the web without an ad blocker. It didn't last long, but it was glorious. Those must be the halcyon days that everyone sits around the old folks' home reminiscing about.