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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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My favorite enshittified feature of Amazon is how, when I sort by low prices, most of the results completely disappear.
Been like that forever. At least eBay gives honest results.
Another fucked up feature is how some products show price per unit, or mix units, or simply don't say.