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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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We can barely keep Mastodon / Lemmy instnaces floating that host text, gifs and pictures.
That doesn't include paying the content creators.
Just because you're getting shit for free, doesn't mean that other people will want to do it for you for free.
Fuck you.
peertube exists. so does owncast
Neither pay their creators as far as I'm aware?
so? find someone to pay you.
Hmm. Maybe youtube?
don't count on it.
But I am. I know I will get paid next month, I can count on it. I couldn't count on it if I was dependent on a few donators.
lol assuming way too much about me, feel free think what you want 😂