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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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I’ve met one of these zero-regulation idiots thinking that somehow the average Joe benefits from giving all power to anyone with lots of money who isn’t them.
Just ask those dickholes how many times they've had the chance to vote for JP Morgan Chase's or Walmart's or ExxonMobil's CEO.
Then ask them how many opportunities they've had to elect Presidents and Congressmembers.