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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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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Bites are 1 oz and full sized cookies are 4 oz. So 12/4=3 cookies equivalent. My nearest Penn Station has 1 cookie@$2.79 so that is $8.37 for 3. So $7.99 is cheaper.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] diverging@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A sub place called Penn Station.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

ah ok - never been - prolly never will either lol

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

We didn't say AVERAGE HUMAN BITES. As I'm sure you are aware, ants bite, too.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

Seems kind of crazy, it's not like full size cookies need expensive ingredients, they should have a high profit margin on that either way