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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As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders (arstechnica.com)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

No mention of phones becoming shittier with every new release of iphones, because everyone else decided to just copy Apple? Removing physical keyboards (I'll die on this hill), removing headphone jacks, flimsy as fuck, gluing the fucking back cover to make repairs even harder