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

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

Yeah, it's a legitimately good product, and it's filling a niche in a market where all the other options frustrate people. So, it makes sense that people are happy about it and eager to share their experiences.

they do salivate at the thought of learning enough about us they can do custom pricing on everything and charge each of us the absolute maximum we’re willing to pay.)

Hopefully they see how I'm always talking about buying stuff at the thrift store, and talking about how overpriced everything is at MSRP, and then they decide the max they can charge me is 10% of MSRP. Hehe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

lol!