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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Bluesky is working on a subscription. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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Well that didn't take long. Looks like they're going the discord route and locking uploads + basic customization behind a subscription. You know, because we don't already have enough of those.

Bluesky is working on a premium subscription that will add features like higher-quality video uploads and some profile customization options.

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[–] donuts 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Definitely. The fact that it's centralized will eventually lead to ads anyway. That's why they can't throw millions at something like Mastodon or Lemmy, because then they can't control it when it's mass adopted.