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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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s also based entirely on a tweet with zero follow-up or explanation as to what happened. People have lied on Twitter in the past, shockingly.

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lied? On Twitter? Nooooooo, couldn't be

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

He says in the article how he helps his parents with their network and noticed the coffee machine.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Twitter and every other copycat service that severely limits characters is genuinely a magnet for the world's idiots.