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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An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/enshittification

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The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things b...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if we just wait it out for a few years, let all the olds die. And then we build a new society on top of their corpses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We've been waiting it out since at least the 60s. Probably well before then in the enlightenment era, someone had to have said that, and the pope is still a thing.

These people have children. They aren't going to die out.