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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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Send them porn in their ticket system. Even if it has to be text-only, I'm sure you can find some suitably disturbing and graphic fanfiction.
The people answering your requests are usually not the ones making the anti-consumer policies and they don't deserve abuse. Sending unsolicited porn material is abuse.
Please remember that customer service is often a shit job with a shit pay that people do because they need a job to afford rent and food and don't vent your frustration on them.
I'm sorry, but is that porn or a Tinder profile?
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