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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Yeah but you can at least choose exactly which episode you'd like rather than flipping channels or watching the guide channel to figure out what's on and even then it may be something you're not in the mood for. Not that I don't agree it's expensive again if you pay for them all but we do have better options even when subscribing to only one or two.