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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I miss when people made stuff because they loved making stuff, not because they wanted to get rich.

They still do, but you'll never find it in the existing layout. The only stuff that bubbles to the surface is so heavily SEO engineered and hyper-monetized that it's got to be sixteen ads on the back of an infomercial in order to break even.