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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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How I understood it, simplified: Bambu Labs will only let you print if you send your files through their cloud service (Bambu Connect). If you use a third party slicer, it will be severely limited in functionality, making you reliant on Bambu's own slicer. This slicer is a fork of the open source Prusa slicer, and the Bambu slicer was later forked to Orcaslicer which has more functionality. It turns out that in Linux you can bypass Bambu Connect all together using some commands, so someone forked Orcaslicer and ported the Linux commands into it. Bambu won't have that, so they threatened the guy who built it. This guy then said "screw it, guess I'm leaving Bambu printers". Lot's of community backlash followed, of which Jeff Geerlings is the latest.
Meanwhile, Bambu will give every Youtube maker with ten followers a free printer for brand recognition and advertizing.