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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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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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"It was better when one of the worst people who ever lived was in charge."
Tim Cook was not any better
The best thing Steve ever did for the world is try to fix his extremely treatable cancer with a fruit diet.
Rich entitled prick massively lucked out with an easily treatable form of pancreatic cancer, but killed himself anyway.
He was a fucking psycho who only cared about product quality, so if you were a customer, it kinda ruled. If you had any other interaction with him it was probably hell.
product quality and apple do not exist in one sentence
That's not all he cared about.
He also cared about manipulating entire markets to make everything more expensive to undercut any economies of scale and turn it all into profit at the customer's expense. He was a goddamn pioneer at that.
right? who do you think built this trashfire