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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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app (arstechnica.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18724475

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 2 points 3 months ago

I had not read it. I appreciate the correction