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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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Google is testing the hiding of YouTube's dislike button entirely from all forms of videos (media.thebrainbin.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1480679/google-is-testing-the-hiding-of-youtube-s-dislike-button-entirely-from-all-forms-of-vide

Source: User reports, reported on by couple of news outlets:

Reddit: 1, 2;

X/Twitter.

Google is testing the hiding of YouTube's dislike button entirely from all forms of videos

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[–] dusk@piefed.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

My watch history is turned off.

The real dislike button is using a channel blocker, or pipepipe etc

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

The real dislike button is not watching YouTube.

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[–] dusk@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

pipepipe etc seems very not likey.

I'm still to find a platform that serves the same purpose as yt, it's my last google thing. I had some potential options open, but then didn't. Need to look yet again.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Unsure what aspect you are looking for, but maybe #Grayjay or straight-up #RSS?

Former aggregates video and audio services, and people can make their own integrations too, and even helps with discoverability if you explore the home tab. Latter fits a similar aggregation purpose purpose, though not quite on discoverability and is more manual to use.

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[–] dusk@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A balance of quantity and quality I guess, browser based, and no to low ai

I've looked a few times over the years and never found anything that ticks the boxes.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I see. In such case then, from what I've observed, the ones that get the closest are Rumble and Odysse, though both still much smaller.

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[–] dusk@piefed.social 1 point 2 weeks ago

odysee seems very youtube like in all the wrong ways

I will check out rumble, it isn't one I have heard of, thank you.

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