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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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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It seems like some websites think that the more the users know about the quality of the content, the worse it is for the website’s profit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

It means they can shovel whatever bullshit they want without you realizing it is not an algorithm but a manual selection of videos.