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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Brands actively engaged in the enshittification playbook. (ledger.worseonpurpose.com)

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If nothing can convince you of the truth, then that's pathetic. I'm sorry you're so unreasonable

It's even worse that you knowingly would come out swinging in defense of AI slop written by a Palantir thug, out of apparently nothing more than a bruised ego. Surely the person who pasted that text can be held responsible for making a worse site on purpose.