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 PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 points 5 months ago

Likewise, I first switched to windows 10 LTSC, which was great. Then it still downloaded the fucking search bar, and then my Xbox games would no longer run. I switched to Arch with the new NVIDIA 555 drivers and now I can play all the games. 🙆‍♂️