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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The schools give each kid a Chromebook at the beginning of the year. So it’s the only computer access these kids get.

Plenty of kids have access to desktops and laptops through their parents. Libraries also have computer labs with traditional PCs.

There isn’t instruction on how PCs work on a base level in my kids middle school

I've never heard of a school that provided middle school computer education outside of small elective classes, and even those only in wealthier districts.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

I don't know many of my son's peers, who do have a pc at home.

I had computer instruction in middle school while attending a title 1 rural school. Idk

Maybe both things are true. Wasn't trying to argue or "be proven wrong" just stating why many children may only know Chromebook use, and it's not thier fault