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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Reddit to add paywalled content (arstechnica.com)

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Of course. 💩

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Spez can choke on a fat syphilitic dick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

lol!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Buh-bye, Reddit!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I may have a miserable existence at times but at least I've never spent money on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That article is the reason I deleted my Reddit account and came to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago