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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First time at a ski resort, and there are Pepsi ads everywhere. It shouldn‘t be this way (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by gzgz@lemmy.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AceSLive@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Nah, I'm with you on this one.