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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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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Load it to what? Who's going to pay for all the bandwidth and storage. How much are y8u willing to host? Peertube is never going to take off because it well cost users and people like free.

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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

That'd require a bit more knowledge than the average YouTube user has, unfortunately.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Who’s going to pay for all the bandwidth and storage.

The users -- it's all bittorrent.

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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Just add "decentralized web3 mining" somewhere in the page and crypto-dipshits will host the shit out of it. No actual cryptocurrency nor even a whitepaper required.

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[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago

You're right, but I dream that one day enough people will realise that the "free" model is shit and be willing to pay.

I'd love to support a content producer on peertube who hosts their own content - the proviso being that their content is engaging enough to want to watch.

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