Has YouTube experienced enshittification?
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 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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Isn't YT the poster child of enshittification?
Facebook set the bar high, but Google is rising to the challenge.
Facebook, surely.
Welcome, users! See how little hassle you get from ads?
Welcome, advertisers! See how fat and docile our userbase is?
Give me your money and thank me for the privilege. What are you gonna do - use MySpace?