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 reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The lack of upload date is the thing that already bugs me the most about YouTube Shorts. Well, maybe the second most after the entire concept.

[–] Miphera@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

YouTube Shorts have a description, which has the upload date at the top. Though this doesn't show up when searching for Shorts, or having them in your feed.