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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[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip [S] 1 point 2 months ago

You're right, the free speech absolutists are now in power and are cracking down on free speech. Turns out they just wanted to be allowed to say whatever they wanted, slurs and all, facing no societal consequences.

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