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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Do you think logos will ever be interesting again? (feddit.dk)

submitted 22 hours ago by SorteKanin@feddit.dk to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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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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[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

in a super-boring font

And they probably also paid a type foundry a fuckload of money to create that super-boring font for their exclusive use.