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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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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Kdenlive is the precise opposite experience of this meme! It is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm voting for kdenlive. And krita for image creation, I use both (although my wife uses the tiktok editor whatever it's called on her phone and her videos are great, so there's that..)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

*capcut it's called capcut apparently the free version is pretty good although I dunno if it works on desktop

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This looks like a phone app though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's Linux software, idk if there's some phone thing by the same name, but I've used it a little. It's pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I’m aware. I prefer OpenShot myself. But at first glance it doesn’t look like OP is on a desktop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

ah my mistake, thought you had looked up Kdenlive and mistook it for a phone app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

they were saying the photo in the post looks like a phone app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

From which version onward?