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 fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI (slrpnk.net)

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apple did the same thing for the longest time with schools. If you had the interest to fuck with computers you would definitely hack whatever they had. Most schools were not good at IT.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

We definitely didn’t know the district admin password and definitely didn't have a group of trusted friends around the school who would maintain a level of shenanigans on the computers without going too far to give away we had full unbridled access to any resource connected to the network. We definitely didn’t send system messages to teachers’ terminals in various different rooms and definitely didn’t bypass gaming lockouts to play doom and other games during class. There definitely wasn’t a day where every library printer started printing entire reams of paper with nothing on them after every bell rang for the day.