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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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You know, the dead internet "theory"? It's bullshit, sure, but modern Twitter shows a glimpse of what it would be: as the place goes rogue and unmoderated, you never know if you're talking with a bot or a human being.
But frankly? Goooood riddance. Even before EnXittification Twitter was already a cesspool.
(At those times I'm happy for my writing style being a bit too convoluted. I don't think that I'll be confused with a bot too soon.)
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