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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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From the toot:

Also a good time to look at the #PeerTube ecosystem for an alternative way to share moving pictures. Things Bending Spoons has bought and enshittified already: Brightcove, Evernote, Meetup, komoot, Remini, and WeTransfer.

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how this will affect dropout, whose streaming platform is ran by vimeo

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sam Reich and Dave Wiskus seem to have a good relationship. Hopefully they can help each other out.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ObscuroMagna@piefed.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow they really do just buy companies to lay off everyone.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

every kingdom needs an executioner.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Borderline scam company.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, they're the guys that Komoot founders sold out to. That sucks.

[–] ytsedude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They also ruined Evernote.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've a friend who uses Vimeo as a host for imbed videos for her company. I won't be warning her because she's "all in on AI" and I don't think she'll listen to me on anyone enshittification related.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does PeerTube have a membership/account access mechanism?

If not, I can't see how creators who monetize their content would be able to move in.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I think they would have to do external funding. I think peertube just solves bandwidth without building datacenters like YouTube. But also I’m not too verse with internet stuff.