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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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh well.

This sucks but they need to keep turning up the dial so more people jump over to peertube.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

is there a way to experience peertube that comes even close to youtube? i took a look at some instances and they're always like here's a page that looks like it was made in 1993 and only had videos of one dude.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Not that I've really found.

It's like lemmy before may last year - just weird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

there are alternative apps to access peer tube instances, like for lemmy. even newpipe has support for one of the bigger ones

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As much as I want something like that to happen I don't see it happening for video platforms. Since most people wouldn't switch platforms from YouTube since the creators they like are on YouTube and those creators won't switch platforms cause they won't be able to make a living on another platform unless it's another big one like TikTok. The only alternatives to YouTube that have really worked are more niche subscription platforms like Nebula and Floatplane. Which only work as an additional platform to YouTube as a way to get some extra stable income that isn't ad dependent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree in that its probably not the right time in 2024.

I also don't think bittorrent is the right tech.

That said, as yt becomes more toxic there's more demand for alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The most realistic solution is probably eventually breaking up Youtube on grounds it's a monopoly. The political will doesn't exist atm, but that would solve the problem of YT having no competitors and would mean competitors would come with infrastructure already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't see this as very realistic because, as you say, there's no political will.