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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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[–] phoenixz 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why use that obvious scam trap ?

Use open source software where you have an editor that is free as in freedom AND free as in beer

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesn’t want to become full time video editor…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I use shortcut, can do a lot of cool things and it's not overwhelmingly difficult. A few simple guides and you're up and running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

That's only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it

With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.

From the standpoint who doesn't do much coding it's probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can't use one of your favourite programs anymore.