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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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Trakt.tv has limited lists to maximum 2 of 100 items and watchlist to 100 items unless you pay $60/year (lemmy.world)
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This is a new change because not enough people find their VIP features worth the money.

I'll be moving to TMDb instead. And you should know that Trakt would not exist without TMDb open and free database and API.

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[โ€“] shmanio@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The blog post in their forums is titled "Freemium Experience: More Features for All".

Also, they quietly doubled the price for VIP accounts in September (used to be $30/y)

[โ€“] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Reading that announcement and the list of their VIP offering is so weird. $6/mo for spoiler free browsing whatever that is, 100+ items on list, notes and collection (!) and then some technical features like iCAL/RSS and CVS export and of course a VIP badge next to your username. It seems to me they are targeting some social media revenue streams but struggling coming up with features that would motivate VIP so instead they cut back on what is already there. My guess is next step is locking down the API and then bullshit like influencers livestreaming reviews. Yeah, I'll move to TMDb and keep moving to something self hosted should they to go sludgy.