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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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 163 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Notepad++.

That is all.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Sublime Text

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

In my opinion, Sublime Text is a little bit better for coding based applications, specifically with like HTML and CSS, even though Notepad++ is great for it too, but just for overall drag and drop replace, works with everything, wonderful, free and open source software, it is very, very difficult to beat Notepad++.

[–] Master@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Price wise sublime text isn't that great unless you are coding with it.

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