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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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I mentioned it in another post, but arguably the worst part of all of this is not that he's failing at arguing against FOSS (which he is failing spectacularly), but what he's actually trying to do is discredit the devs and their passion and effort that build all the cool, fun, and interesting solutions we have.
Standard capitalist bootlicker mentality though, steal ideas, repackage them as new products with a pricetag, a subscription, maybe an expansion, dlc, or microtransaction too. The only innovation they're good at is providing a worse product for more money.
No technical merit as usual.
I get the impression he is software dev of some sort, that is not very good at and doesn't make much money at it. So he lashes out and complains. Or he literally is just a troll.
Potentially, yeah. I saw he mentioned contributing to Osm and complained about all the rules they had to contribute. (Ironic considering he came at me trying to say FOSS and F-Droid projects are entirely unsafe and uncurated lol.) But seems like he's at least technically literate enough to mess around.
I wonder if there's a masochistic streak in there too. Looking through the profile he constantly posts and replies and gets trounced but still keeps coming back for more. Even weirder is the linuxsucks community he maintains is essentially just him. Making/posting memes, shitting on Linux and promoting windows with next to no comments or engagement...just downvotes. Yelling angrily into the void almost.
He seems to have particular hardons for:
Very capitalist, very conservative, he may be older, possibly if in the US he may be a Reagan republican if not an outright MAGAt. Which may have been his inspiration for his pejorative of LiGNUt. Which I assume is Linux + GNU + nut?
I really wonder how FOSS hurt him so. It's quite the grudge regardless of the circumstances. Or maybe a hyperfixation? Dunno 🤷♂️
I just assumed it was Bill Gates