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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[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

There are companies that give away restaurant furniture for free in exchange for advertising on the table. For a mom and pop restaurant or B&B that is just starting, that furniture is a landline. Most of the time the advertisers are local.

Now, if this is a corpo, wolf lodge, Marriot resort, then yeah, fuck 'em