It's also getting 230% more hard-right vibes.
Defederate please...
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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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 still use twitter sometimes for porn, and it's I'm really getting ridiculous because they inject Trump and Musk spam after porn.
Bluesky is pretty good for porn now…
Lemmy has a porn instance I hear
Have to check it out then!
Careful it doesn’t become a kink…
My conspiracy theory is that that's the goal. To either traumatized perverts forever, or at least make them fetishise those idiots
Surely people can't be surprised by this? When I occasionally look at FB now, it's probably 80% sponsored ads or follow this type "posts"
Can one enshittify that which was already shit?
There is always more shit.
I’m surprised it didn’t start with them
Yeah, is in the name already threADS
Does that mean they stop just shy of three ads?
with the platform officially launching on July 5, 2023
1 year, 6 months, 21 days excluding the end date
So it takes about a year and a half for the true colours to shine through.
Zuck said from the beginning that advertising would come when they reached N number of users. I wanna say he said billion, but I'm not interested in any of their platforms and never really cared either way.
I feel sorry for anyone who didn’t know this was bound to happen sooner or later.
"Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren."
How can I choose to block threads? threads.ruin.io and threads.kyzune.com show up when I search for it, but are those the actual thing?
threads.net I think