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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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Tin foil hat time: Are tech companies trying to corner the world energy market?
We know one company that's buying a nuclear facility, apparently the child that owns twitters corpse is running multiple generators to power his AI.
Has no one ever read just about anything cyberpunk? Actually? FFS.
People like Zuckerberg use dystopian sci-fi as a manual.
And yet, everyone seems so fucking surprised? 🤷🏼♂️
Cornering the energy market at the same time that solar panels become cheap enough to use as fencing. yeah sounds like the correct amount of stupid
Okay so you put a little dent in my conspiracy. I thank you for that.
What you said is opened up a new idea to me, perhaps these tech companies are using all this energy to keep the stock price up while the solar panels take the power from them.
Pretty sure the latter is meant to be temporary. You can build a data center in as little as a year, but it can take multiple years for utilities to bring more power