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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f-droid has my condolences (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 months ago by godsammitdam@lemmy.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/linuxphones@piefed.ca/p/832312/f-droid-has-my-condolences

Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well, it's going to be interesting, because I don't install any software from the paid Google repo.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even if you don't sideload from the Google store, this is bound to affect anybody with an Android-branded device because Google covertly controls who gets to wield that brand.

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 36 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I refuse to call it a store. I can't walk into it and pick up a box from the shelf with physical install media. It's a software repository with paywalls.

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[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I like you

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