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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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Cant imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Who’s not an animal? Because humans are definitely classified as animals. We’re definitely not plants.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Animals as in- barbaric knuckle-dragging cavemen than can’t handle negativity and adversity without harming others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You’re virtue signaling and need to do some deep searching and a review of human history. Be better.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah… being nonviolent absolutely is a virtue. A pretty simple one at that. So I’m hoping the signal is loud and clear. And human history? Really? We used to use the practice of trepanning to release evil spirits from one’s head. Doctors once prescribed cigarettes to patients. History is a bad example to use to justify the present.

And lastly, you have the nerve to tell me to be better while you try and justify acts of violence?

Be better indeed- and evolve while you’re at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

What acts of violence have they committed?