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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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002 to c/enshittification

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why would anyone want those features in fucking notepad of all places?

They're absolutely useless when editing .txt, .ini, .bat, or .cmd files, which is what notepad is for.

Put them into Word, if you want that crap!