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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

I'll come off it. I know plenty of 30 and 40-year-olds who are utterly incapable of performing the most basic of tasks on a computer. By your logic they should not have an issue since they grew up with Windows.

Some people are just really stupid and have zero interest in educating themselves.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Who cares about any of that? I didn’t see a single problem.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is LITERALLY the most regarded take one could have about Chromebooks

What's next, you want to gatekeep education as well?

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