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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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PSA: The serial enshittifiers from Bending Spoons have bought Vimeo. Time to make sure you have your content backed up (social.wildeboer.net)
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From the toot:

Also a good time to look at the #PeerTube ecosystem for an alternative way to share moving pictures. Things Bending Spoons has bought and enshittified already: Brightcove, Evernote, Meetup, komoot, Remini, and WeTransfer.

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how this will affect dropout, whose streaming platform is ran by vimeo

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Sam Reich and Dave Wiskus seem to have a good relationship. Hopefully they can help each other out.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What is Bending Spoons?

[–] ObscuroMagna@piefed.social 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow they really do just buy companies to lay off everyone.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

every kingdom needs an executioner.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Borderline scam company.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

A tech chop shop, they buy tech companies, lay off most of the staff and then hike the price as much as they possibly can.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they're the guys that Komoot founders sold out to. That sucks.

[–] ytsedude@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They also ruined Evernote.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I've a friend who uses Vimeo as a host for imbed videos for her company. I won't be warning her because she's "all in on AI" and I don't think she'll listen to me on anyone enshittification related.

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does PeerTube have a membership/account access mechanism?

If not, I can't see how creators who monetize their content would be able to move in.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I think they would have to do external funding. I think peertube just solves bandwidth without building datacenters like YouTube. But also I’m not too verse with internet stuff.