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 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fair, I just don't like how cluttered Notepad++ feels.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people would call that "functionality".

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sublime Text has all that functionality and more without stealing precious screen space from your valuable text.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Never used Sublime Text but just from the screenshots on their site looks like the only real difference is the menu bars? Do you have to reference the documentation to look up keyboard shortcuts on all the stuff you don't do often?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

No, it's not vi.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never heard of notepad++ being referred to as cluttered before. It's fairly spartan in my opinion.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Cluttered compared to Notepad or Sublime Text.