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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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Agreed, coming from regular Notepad there's a lot going on there. The whole point of Notepad was a quick and dirty text editor. If I needed that many options for what I'm writing I'll just fire up Word instead.
That's why I like Sublime - it's powerful enough to be my main code editor, and clean enough to jot down some quick notes.
Huh, never heard of Sublime before. I'll give that a try!
The developer is also Australian, so it's still a good option if you're boycotting US products.