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.

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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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The enshittification of music, by Rick Beato (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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Rick Beato making clear what is happening on the music scene just as Cory Doctorow or Adam Conover talk about the Internet. Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.

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[–] elbarto777 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Please remember to use frontends like Grayjay, NewPipe, Freetube or invidio.us to watch videos like these.

Why not post a link to one of those platforms?

Kindof makes me think, there should be a canonical YouTube link that is not youtube.com, that could be use to refer to yt videos without the risk of accidentally clicking it and ending up in yt.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Paradoxically, I kinda prefer YouTube links because then I can configure my client to use whichever proxy/frontend I wanna use

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! It is so much more user friendly to post the original and let individuals set their browser/device to open it wherever is preferred.

[–] elbarto777 5 points 6 months ago

Oh absolutely!

My point is that it's easy for anyone to click the link and be taken to YouTube by accident.

But yeah. Given that YouTube is the source, I guess it makes sense to use the actual yt link.

[–] elbarto777 5 points 6 months ago

That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Becuase it is off-topic and I don't know exactly what platform readers are using

[–] elbarto777 2 points 6 months ago

Got it.