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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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It requires a truly astonishing amount of technical expertise, infrastructure, monitoring, throughput capacity, not to mention sheer compute and storage, to keep it running.

Indeed. Yet they still add stupid features like 8K video and high-bitrate 1080p. What the heck are they doing? Who needs more then 720p anyways?

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

An engineer who needs a line item on their CV to get promoted.

Seriously though, 1080p is not a lot if you're on a big monitor or TV. At 720p you can start pixel counting on some displays