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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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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? (www.theguardian.com)
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Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago
  1. The listings under Prime indicate overnight delivery until you actually check out or
  2. Overnight delivery is actually not a thing.
  3. Returns by Staples is a mess. If the cashier makes a mistake, they say you never returned the item. We are now having to take pictures of returns like we work for Amazon.