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Fediverse enshittification
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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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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if an admin becomes tempted with letting sponsored content to filter into the network, they will face defederation and an diaspora of their users.
that's why it's also important to support your server admin financially so they don't have an incentive of looking for third party financing in the first place.
I very much agree. But what if a very important Lemmy community is on a server that decides to allow sponsored content or something similar, it'll be hard for the community to move. Maybe Lemmy should implement tools for moving communities when it's necessary.
Allowing for mods to be able to move communities is definitely something that is needed, though the same could also be said about moving accounts and their post history. Neither of which has much work done and isn't considered "important enough" by any of the platforms, even Mastodon which is relatively far along compared to Lemmy doesn't consider moving accounts and their post histories to be worth while.