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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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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I foresee the next step being tiktok but with AI generated tv static that doesn't make any sense but triggers the right neurons in the brain.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I think that once people's attention spans got shortened by tiktok, they started to naturally gravitate towards formats that catered to that same short attention span.

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It's the ARIA principle - - all recommendation is advertisement.