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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Spotify’s HiFi add-on could cost an extra $5 per month (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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

Thank you for the explanation. Yes I'm sure that I won't hear a difference even though I have good headphones and speakers. I was just curious and didn't know they would have access to the master files

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you're interested, Qobuz has a free trial to their streaming subscription.

They don't have as good an interface as others or good recommendations, but the library is pretty good. Besides some more obscure stuff, they have everything I love.

And if you're interested in keeping stuff offline, there's a few Python scripts that use their API to download the high quality files. Makes it pretty trivial to make a library of offline, high-res music.