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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Snapchat to start charging users for Memories storage (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by can@sh.itjust.works to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] rabbitcat@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I guess selling all the user data was not profitable enough. Anyway I'm glad that I deleted my shitchat account almost a year ago.

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