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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[–] PeggyLouBaldwin 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

youtube pays you even if the content isn’t worth getting paid for

if alphabet's shareholders heard this, they would take them to court. it can't be true. and if they're willing to pay, someone else will be, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and if they're willing to pay, someone else will be, too.

You're saying this as a matter of fact. But it's not how it works in real life, otherwise people would have already migrated.

[–] PeggyLouBaldwin 1 points 2 weeks ago

they pay you because they get paid by advertisers. cut them out of the middle and go directly to the companies running ads on your vids.