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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Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the enshittification of the internet | John Naughton (www.theguardian.com)

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There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?

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[–] hydra 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe consolidation was bound to happen but it sucks and its current form was 100% preventable.