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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So Long OfferUp, It Was Fun While It Lasted (imgur.com)

submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by AnotherMadHatter to c/enshittification

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I usually spend some time on OfferUp looking at things I might be interested in buying used because why not. I am interested in seeing if I can get some Milwaukee Packout cases slightly used for a deal.

Did a search for "Milwaukee" and got more than 14 pages of posts from a single pawn shop. Most of the ads aren't even selling anything they are just the same text on all of them.

WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY TOOLS DEWALT, MILWAUKEE, MAKITA, SNAP ONE, MAC TOOLS, ALL HIGH END BRANDS - USED IN GOOD CONDITION! MESSAGE WHAT U HAVE OR CALL TO DISCUSS XXX-XXX-XXXX

One of the posts was the same item for sale, but posted like 25 times.

Apparently, caps-lock is where it's at. Anyway, if this is not cleaned up by the OfferUp spam patrol, is there another Craigslist / OfferUp that doesn't have this quantity of spam?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well, there's one, but it requires dealing with an exceedingly shit company, so uh, not really?

[–] AnotherMadHatter 4 points 14 hours ago

Bummer. Guess I'll have to see what Craigslist is looking like nowadays. I haven't been there in a couple of years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

It's a shame LetGo got merged with OfferUp. I got some great stuff on LetGo and was able to unload quite a few things too. OfferUp was not nearly as good.

Facebook Marketplace killed Craigslist in my area. As of late, there are more postings than there used to be, but the days of Craigslist being full of deals seem to be gone.