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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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Spotify’s HiFi add-on could cost an extra $5 per month (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At ~17 USD a month, you could buy nearly every new song you like that you found that month in CD quality or better.

Start building your own library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Buying music outright helps support the artists, too.

Qobuz

Bandcamp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apple Music stayed the same price and Tidal** lowered its Hi-Fi tier to match Apple's pricing. Fuck Spotify.