this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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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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Translation: "We make ~3x per user in advertising revenue in the app vs the web"
Reddit is shit these days, out of control mods, the overpowering use of AI to delete posts and ban users. It’s become terrible and quickly not worth using.
"These days" is very generous.
Reddit spokesperson: "we've seen that the experience is much better for them in the app"
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Also would imagine Old Reddit (old.reddit.com) is unaffected, as usual.
Who the fuck is supposed to believe that? The official app was so famously shit that they had to crack down on alternative clients - which ultimately drove a bunch of people to quit that corporate cesspool and come to the fediverse.
As soon as that started last week, I stopped going on reddit altogether. They made the decision for me.
Because blocking ads in the app is much more difficult than blocking them in the website.