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] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Needed a PDF editor on my phone once. Was a fn nightmare to find one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

PDF is copyrighted by Adobe (or something similar).

That is why all the PDF editors are paid for, since they need to pay a license to Adobe in order to be allowed to edit PDFs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Google links need upvote/downvote buttons!