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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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Do you think the server you are making uncomfortable in any way influences the deals the establishment does with other companies?
I'm sorry but if something so simple like sarcasm or facetiousness makes them uncomfortable then they probably need a life and stop being so freaking sensitive 🤦♀️
Sorry, this might be beacuse of my autism because I didnt understand any implied sarcasm and painted my own feelings regarding strong eye contact "focus" on the imagined interaction.
I still dont understand the motivation or reason to ask for coke and keep eye contact while declaring that pepsi is not okay. The whole situation reads bizarre, especially since the service personnell has no influence over the options of coke or pepsi, nor marketing merchandise use.
Nah, I'm with you on this one.