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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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Someone could say the same for an OS, but we have many open source alternatives.

An OS requires significantly less resources. The only online features you need for an OS is a website to market the OS and host ISO's. Then you need a server to distribute packages to users. Packages which are significantly smaller then HD or 4K videos