this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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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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Is the screenshot from before THAT GUY announced he'd be hiding like counts etc? Was the decision reversed? I'm not going there to check, I could use some adventurer with private browsing, anti-fingerprinting and a VPN.
I'm not sure if like counts were actually going to be hidden, they just hid what you like, so your likes are private only to you but still add to the total of likes on the post
Ironically the people that like your posts are visible to you still, so anyone that's well known trying to hide what they like can still easily be outed by the poster