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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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Fuck Fandom, find alternative wikis whenever possible.
Me and my homies HATE fandom
It's kind of a selfish feeling but I'm always so bummed to find the only wiki for an indie game on fandom. Yeah, I could put the work in to make a different one elsewhere....but I'll probably beat the game before I'm done copying the info over.
On the upside the forking process will likely continue to get streamlined.
Pretty sure they C&D or whatever, so you have to modify the content before using it on another website.
I'm not sure if they do, but that's some hypocritical shit since they blatantly rip off content from independent wiki's (you can see this whenever the Terraria wiki is updated).
They'll claim "we didn't do it, one of our users did it, and we aren't responsible for them".
Fuck Fandom
My bad if they don't, I'm regurgitating half remembered facts from a video I watched about it.
Fuck fandom.
I've recently witnessed people creating a new fandom wiki twice. Both times I warned them, sent them stuff explaining why Fandom is shit, they shrugged their arms and created it. People are dumb.
This a million times over.
Oh fuck yes. I've been looking for an extension exactly this a couple of times in the past. Never found anything. Probably because google is shit nowadays.