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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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The point is some of the functionality is useful and desirable, even if manufacturers make poor choices in implementation

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