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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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Yeah, I'm old school: I wanna buy my software application, not rent it.
True. Even buying things on say the playstore, App store, steam or any platform really is a ticking time bomb. If the platform disappears or the companies running them have a change in management, there’s no guarantee.
At least with physical copies, our software is with us regardless of what happens to the companies behind them.