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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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My issue with the news sites is that they often want as much or even more money for their subscription than they charged for their newspaper. A newspaper had to be set, printed, boxed, distributed to a drop off point, and then folded up by a kid who would drop it on my doorstep at 6 am. The cost of running a website has got to be pennies on the dollar compared to all of their previous overhead. But do they pass those savings on to people? No! They decided they need to make 10x more money because of a technology that made their jobs way easier. So yeah, fuck them. Especially now that half of their content is just opinionated muckraking, and posting screenshots of Twitter. I do have some magazine subscriptions, and a subscription to the NYT because I feel like they actually perform quality journalism, but most of these news companies aren't worth shit.