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

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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 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And music has mostly been generic forgettable schlock since then.

Mainstream* music.

Plenty of amazing artists out there who are not part of the music business machine.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, there are gems to be found. That’s why I said mostly.

[–] elbarto777 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Except that mainstream music is not "mostly". Even in the 80s, 0.1% of the music produced globally was played 99% of the time on the radio.

But I understand what you're saying.