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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs
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this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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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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In the US?
I live in Canada. But even in the US it hasn't been like this for everybody. Ever seen the movie Office Space? The truth is closer to that movie for the vast majority of IT employees than whatever big tech Silicon Valley companies offer.