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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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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not user error to use a product as designed. Pointlessly designing products to connect to the Internet is corporate error

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 19 hours ago

It’s not user error to use a product as designed.

Buying it in the first place was the error.

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[–] thenextguy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago

User purchased the device and user connected it to their WiFi. Just because some corp made it doesn't mean you have to buy it.

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