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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YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by LuuTuyen to c/enshittification

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes I watch videos of The Daily Show and it drives me bonkers that they upload old episodes from a decade ago and it's impossible to tell if it's current Daily Show, or the classic one. If the whole service was like that... I'm completely gone.

[–] letsgo2themall 3 points 5 days ago

Last Week Tonight does this too! I unsubbed. Not worth watching like this.

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