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Fediverse enshittification
(lemmy.zip)
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
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
The same thing that accelerated email’s consolidation may affect the fediverse as well - spam.
Yep, that's what it always is. Strange as it is to say, maybe we need to be a bit more tolerant of spam, after all it's never going to go away, it still happens on corporate enshittified platforms (so consolidation doesn't really help). Maybe we just need to get used to it and not give up what's important over being mildly or moderately annoyed. Just delete it and move on with your day. You'll still deal with it on corporate platforms just the same, so why sacrifice freedom for the cost of being slightly less annoyed. Ads in the inbox are so much more annoying than spam which can be deleted and blocked, that's the trade off.