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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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They're not getting a penny from me while they host hate on their platform, for one.
Second, fuck em. Am I supposed to care about Google? The company that routinely ruins everything good in every product they've ever had? Am I to assume their bullshit ends once they get my credit card?
I paid good money for Google Play Music for years only for them to destroy it. I paid for Google Drive for years only for them to break the desktop syncing functions. I've been paying for Android since it started, and they have routinely broken my ability to use my own phone the way I please, and now they actively punish me for it.
And you want me to keep paying them?
Nah. I'm not helping them. If they can't afford to host it for free, fine. Let it burn.