this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
275 points (96.0% liked)
Enshittification
4963 readers
231 users here now
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.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Why do we still have mom jeans then, no one looks good in them
We don’t still have mom jeans. We have mom jeans again, supporting kobold’s point.
They never went away though
They are called mom jeans because - because - until recently, and since the early nineties, only moms wore them. Not sure about you but where I come from, “mom” is not synonymous with fashionable.
Nothing goes away. Things go in and out of fashion and the zeitgeist - that’s really what is being discussed here.