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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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Meta is developing a prediction market app called ‘Arena’ as [gambling] sector booms (www.coindesk.com)

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Under capitalism the endpoint of every app is a slot machine.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Zuck's whole thing is just stealing names from far cooler things. Metaverse came from a Neal Stephenson novel

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[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Snow Crash. Awesome Book

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Those who cannot create, just steal. That's how billionaires are made, and this is how AI is made.

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