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. Im sure this has been a thing for a while... but this is getting out of hand. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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It'll keep continuing until you get one FPS and no audio without paying for premium.

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[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

They did. When I encounter such videos, I immediately think "why is it stuck in 720p" only to discover it's 1080p non premium, that is way worse than any other standard 1080p video.

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