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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] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also getting 230% more hard-right vibes.

Defederate please...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Recommended for you: posts from Trump.

I still use twitter sometimes for porn, and it's I'm really getting ridiculous because they inject Trump and Musk spam after porn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bluesky is pretty good for porn now…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy has a porn instance I hear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Have to check it out then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Careful it doesn’t become a kink…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

My conspiracy theory is that that's the goal. To either traumatized perverts forever, or at least make them fetishise those idiots

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

Surely people can't be surprised by this? When I occasionally look at FB now, it's probably 80% sponsored ads or follow this type "posts"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can one enshittify that which was already shit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There is always more shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

with the platform officially launching on July 5, 2023

1 year, 6 months, 21 days excluding the end date

So it takes about a year and a half for the true colours to shine through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Zuck said from the beginning that advertising would come when they reached N number of users. I wanna say he said billion, but I'm not interested in any of their platforms and never really cared either way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m surprised it didn’t start with them

[–] user1234 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, is in the name already threADS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Does that mean they stop just shy of three ads?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I feel sorry for anyone who didn’t know this was bound to happen sooner or later.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How can I choose to block threads? threads.ruin.io and threads.kyzune.com show up when I search for it, but are those the actual thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

threads.net I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren."