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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Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, I reckon I've been using the same $15 mouse for close to a decade now and it still works fine. If it stops working I'd much rather just buy another $15 mouse than have another goddamned bill to pay every month

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

at this point you can probably make your own mouse with a microcomputer, a sensor, and some suguru or whatever.