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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Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show (mashable.com)

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

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

"formerly known as Twitter" JHC when the f are these tech publications going to stop telling us Twitter has a new name?

[–] Lost_My_Mind 15 points 5 months ago

Because when is twitter going to call itself twitter again? X is a horrible name, and nobody wants to use it. In text form it looks like a typo, or a mathemetical variable.