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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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Recommended for you: posts from Trump.

I still use twitter sometimes for porn, and it's I'm really getting ridiculous because they inject Trump and Musk spam after porn.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bluesky is pretty good for porn now…

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy has a porn instance I hear

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Have to check it out then!

[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Careful it doesn’t become a kink…

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

My conspiracy theory is that that's the goal. To either traumatized perverts forever, or at least make them fetishise those idiots