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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YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts (lemmy.world)

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The cat story is really upsetting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what happened?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Is that a rhetorical question?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

how's that even a question?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've been trying to find browsers extensions that do this so that I would spend less time on youtube. Pretty sweet that youtube is doing it on their own!

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