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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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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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[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I have him tagged as "corporate shill", so I guess he just does this type of shit.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I love finding out other people's tags. I need to change clients so I can do that.

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