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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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[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My experience with iOS devices is mostly non-jailbroken devices, where the file system is not accessible.

[–] memoryfoam44@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What is it you think the Files app is showing you?

[–] vala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not trying to be rude but the files app is absolutely not giving you anything close to full access to your devices file system. It's an abstraction over the actual file system if anything.

A very limited scope of the filesystem instead of exposing the whole thing. Android does the same thing, and so does every system that doesn't allow the user to have root access.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 2 days ago

Ohh…the files are in the computer

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah there's a lot more visible just by connecting via USB but it's still not good.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Thats already more effort than most people will put forth