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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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dju@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I wonder if these will hit freetube. seems likely

[–] hankskyjames777@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fedierse admins get your PeerTube instances ready, they're coming to move

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

holding the gate with freetube for now i wonder if and how they are gonna solve that problem its not a matter of if its get solved, its a matter of when

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe we could use some kind of AI filter to remove ads from the videostream? Like, analyzing the audio spectrum and blocking segments with very sudden changes audio-embedding vectors?

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