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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Google, then vs now (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If anything makes me suspect astroturfing, it's the inevitable hostile reactions to mentions of Kagi. At least this time I didn't end up staying in the negatives or get told that charging money for online services is immoral because reasons. I could swear that Google hires people to specifically spew idiotic bullshit about subscription search services just so people keep using Google

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

Can’t forget, Googie’s got The Juice

Those sweet sweet search results, now pre-digested for our adhesive pizza needs

All fun and games until Alphabet Adware Co sells enough data on us we’re price discriminated against on every conceivable service!