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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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Everything is more expensive and we’re getting less for our money. It’d be one thing if the quality of things got better with prices going up, but everything just sucks more. Shit breaks in ten minutes, food is worse for you (either on purpose or just due to being less nutritious), gas doesn’t go as far and makes your engine dirtier, etc etc.