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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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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Ah yes, a vast increase in the accessibility of computers actually made people less tech literate. This whole "gen-z can't computer like me" crap is just millennials entering into their juvenoia phase. I guess we're all just damned to become boomers, old and scared.

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[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Who cares about any of that? I didn’t see a single problem.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This is LITERALLY the most regarded take one could have about Chromebooks

What's next, you want to gatekeep education as well?

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