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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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I know it's quite an insignificant bit of enshittification but I still feel a bit miffed that every logo these days looks the same.

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[โ€“] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Pinterest, Burberry, and Rimowa all got major downgrades. A bunch of the others weren't very legible before or were kind of a jumbled/weird or also boring typeface (and so replacing with another boring typeface doesn't really matter)

  • Airbnb & Revolut looked like somebody did it with chatgpt on fiverr

  • Spotify looked goofy

  • Yves Saint Laurent was almost good but the kerning was atrocious

  • Berluti & balmain were just different boring fonts. Counterpoint: facebook, balenciaga were also just boring fonts but looked way better than the new boring font

At least they were unique, but they kinda sucked too

[โ€“] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 hours ago

eBay was basically a captcha.