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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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ad-supported web is the cause of the enshittification.

Yes I'm a paying - and very happy - kagi.com user. Getting good search results is worth paying for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish you could pay an houly fee to your ISP and your ISP would pay websites proportinally to the amount of time you spend on them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That seems like a privacy nightmare.