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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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It's also getting 230% more hard-right vibes.
Defederate please...
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I still use twitter sometimes for porn, and it's I'm really getting ridiculous because they inject Trump and Musk spam after porn.
Bluesky is pretty good for porn now…
Lemmy has a porn instance I hear
It's pretty meh, mostly pictures of flat/petite women and sellers reposting everywhere they can
Have to check it out then!