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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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I switched to Linux recently, you can too. It's easy and works well now. No more of this bullshit from Microsoft.
Which version? And for those of us yet to switch, are there any handy guides that you'd recommend?
I tried Bazzite first, and it was easy but I decided I didn't want an immutable system so I switched to Garuda. Both are very gaming focused and easy to get running.