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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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It's not like I'm running out of new content from a lot of different directions. I previously said that when YT ads become unavoidable, I'll just stop going to that site. Someone accused me of trying to dunk on them by saying they'd lose me, but the real answer is that I have too much content to fit in to get to all of it already. If watching content becomes frustrating, there's other content that won't frustrate me as much. At least for now. It'll all turn to shit on a long enough timeline.
And, you know, as someone else mentioned, there're books. I like to read and currently do my reading at a park or on days when I'm asked to be in the office. If I run out of brain-rotting content to watch at home, maybe I'll start reading at home more. Though I'll probably find other ways to fuck off because I'm good at getting distracted, hence why I read away from home anyway.