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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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] PantanoPete@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I use linux but I just checked on my windows 11 vm, the paywall is for AI copilot stuff not the core functionality of the app at all.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 hours ago

Wow what an overdramatic headline then, I mean at this level it's not even clickbait it's straight up lies.