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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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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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I recently disconnected my phone from my car's bluetooth because the experience was so awful, and I'm back to "iPod" mode over usb. Charging is slow, but almost every other experience is better. My wife's phone is still connected, and every once in a while I'll pull up to the house and immediately get the audio from her phone call that is going on inside the house transferred to the car.