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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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[โ€“] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] rollerbang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, I'm thoroughly in the nano camp ๐Ÿ˜‚

Oh I don't really mind what anyone uses, vim is just a lot better than vi in my experience and typically gets aliased to vi when it gets installed. I'd hate for anyone to get vanilla vi with their distro and wonder why so many people like vi not realising most are probably using vim.