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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Trakt.tv has limited lists to maximum 2 of 100 items and watchlist to 100 items unless you pay $60/year (self.enshittification)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by whaleross to c/enshittification

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This is a new change because not enough people find their VIP features worth the money.

I'll be moving to TMDb instead. And you should know that Trakt would not exist without TMDb open and free database and API.

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[–] asbestos 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly I expected something like that would happen. It’s a bummer. $60 a year is insane.
Are there any other services that support scrobbling?

[–] whaleross 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Letterboxd unfortunately does not offer public APIs but TMDb does.

I guess all that is needed for TMDb is somebody enthusiastic enough to code a scrobbler for it.

[–] Xabis 2 points 1 week ago

Doesn’t the arr stack use tmdb?

[–] asbestos 1 points 1 week ago

Hopefully somebody more skilled will. Now I can’t help but wonder what’s the business model of TMDb?