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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A part of preventing enshittification is preventing corporate EEE, which is itself prevented by preventing corporate access to the Fediverse.

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

I would definitely will want to be a part of this as I won't want to see enshittification of the fediverse.