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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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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

We don’t still have mom jeans. We have mom jeans again, supporting kobold’s point.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] deacon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

They are called mom jeans because - because - until recently, and since the early nineties, only moms wore them. Not sure about you but where I come from, “mom” is not synonymous with fashionable.

Nothing goes away. Things go in and out of fashion and the zeitgeist - that’s really what is being discussed here.