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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YouTube before vs. after massive corporate, profit-driven enshittification (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 month ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] dafo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. I'm getting pretty tired of all the recommendations of videos with 8 views next to "real" videos. I'm most definitely not getting any recommendations to large corpo channels, other than the ones I actually enjoy (Mythical Kitchen is probably the most corpo channel I enjoy).

Shorts can go to hell, but they're very easy to avoid as you say.