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YouTube before vs. after massive corporate, profit-driven enshittification
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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 don't mind shorts existing but i wish it wasn't crammed down my throat. like, i'm there to watch longform content but even on my subscriptions page i have to scroll past a big section of shorts to get to the content i actually subscribe to. it should be a separate service, or at least keep it in its own section.