cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/6125697
Artist: David Revoy
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 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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"We noticed a bug in the latest patch where the blade may sometimes fall off. This is unintended and we will fix it in the next quarterly update"
How'd that make it past QA you might ask? Beta testers for things are the QA now. And they often pay for the experience too!
"Wasn't it built so that the blade wouldn't fall off?"
"Works on my device."