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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 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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I'm not sure what's good about people losing the knowledge of the fundamentals of how things work
How ironic is it to be against individual empowerment on the internet in lieu of dependency on corporate controlled outlets..... on the fucking fediverse?
We do not agree that learning these arbitrary technologies constitutes individual empowerment.
Are you worse off because you don’t understand machine language? This has nothing to do with capitalist bullshit.