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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Okay, so what we now need is a browser plugin that skips ahead 15 or 30 seconds, mapped to a hotkey.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (18 children)

How is this enshitification?

You're using third-party tools to circumvent the thing that the platform is held together by.

And the platform is now circumventing the third-party tool.

Pay for premium if you don't want ads. The servers aren't free.

Or, yknow, use an alternative. But you won't, because Mr. Beast and ASMR ear lickers aren't there.

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