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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Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die (youtu.be)

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I only hope they won’t touch youtube Premium, it’s the only thing that makes youtube barely tolerable.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nebula has replaced quite a few YouTube channels for me. Not fully there yet, but it's nice to have a better revenue model for creators.