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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 switched to Linux recently, you can too. It's easy and works well now. No more of this bullshit from Microsoft.
Linux has always worked ok. It's the desktop environments that are unpolished. And the driver model.
Yes, that polished windows patching screen. Or is it the ads you're referring to?
I don't know what randomly selected one-off failure you're referring to.
I'm referring to the daily experience of clunk from kde or the smooth glidey uselessness of gnome.
I much prefer even gnome to windows after getting used to it. I even have KDE set up to gnome workflow on my laptop and there isn't nowhere near the clunk of windowses 20 different control panels with random options and 2 different terminals.