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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/linuxphones@piefed.ca/p/832312/f-droid-has-my-condolences

Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[โ€“] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get the impression he is software dev of some sort, that is not very good at and doesn't make much money at it. So he lashes out and complains. Or he literally is just a troll.

[โ€“] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Potentially, yeah. I saw he mentioned contributing to Osm and complained about all the rules they had to contribute. (Ironic considering he came at me trying to say FOSS and F-Droid projects are entirely unsafe and uncurated lol.) But seems like he's at least technically literate enough to mess around.

I wonder if there's a masochistic streak in there too. Looking through the profile he constantly posts and replies and gets trounced but still keeps coming back for more. Even weirder is the linuxsucks community he maintains is essentially just him. Making/posting memes, shitting on Linux and promoting windows with next to no comments or engagement...just downvotes. Yelling angrily into the void almost.

He seems to have particular hardons for:

  • Anything Linux (obviously)
  • F-Droid as an alternative
  • Anything FOSS
  • Communism - anything that doesn't have a profit motive or is about organizing/community effort gets classified as "commie garbage" or people who are "lazy commies" and don't want to work

Very capitalist, very conservative, he may be older, possibly if in the US he may be a Reagan republican if not an outright MAGAt. Which may have been his inspiration for his pejorative of LiGNUt. Which I assume is Linux + GNU + nut?

I really wonder how FOSS hurt him so. It's quite the grudge regardless of the circumstances. Or maybe a hyperfixation? Dunno ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] cowboydan@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

I just assumed it was Bill Gates