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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38632180
NOPE NOPE NOOOOOPE fuck that man.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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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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Old-ish post, but would rather buy an offline software instead (which I do). No ties to the company past the transaction, and some of the ones I have are older than me and still work just as fine.