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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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Why not post a link to one of those platforms?
Kindof makes me think, there should be a canonical YouTube link that is not youtube.com, that could be use to refer to yt videos without the risk of accidentally clicking it and ending up in yt.
Paradoxically, I kinda prefer YouTube links because then I can configure my client to use whichever proxy/frontend I wanna use
Exactly! It is so much more user friendly to post the original and let individuals set their browser/device to open it wherever is preferred.
Oh absolutely!
My point is that it's easy for anyone to click the link and be taken to YouTube by accident.
But yeah. Given that YouTube is the source, I guess it makes sense to use the actual yt link.
That makes sense.
Becuase it is off-topic and I don't know exactly what platform readers are using
Got it.