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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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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I don't even mind view count, but why would they even remove upload date? That's the only way to know whether the video is new or not.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 weeks ago

Youtube wants to own what you watch. Thats why they pivot so hard from showing you the subscriber list first and want to bank on their own algorithm to choose what you see.

Once they do, they have a captured audience of millions they get to choose what you think, buy, see ads for and become addicted too.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

because if you don’t know straight away how old the video is, now you have to click on it to see. bam, ads.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, particularly great when i want to see some creators take/analysis/lecture on recent events, that are subject to daily changes.

Great way to muddy the water for people following the war in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Most likely answer is that they do it for the same reason as Facebook not sorting their feed by date: they want users to fully rely on their algorithm. My completely uneducated guess is that they want to feed their users older videos where they don't pay out as much to their creators as they do for new videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta save some "features" for the Premium version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? Like that’s why I click on a video most of the time when I see “X hours old”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Always happy to see "11 years old" video randomly pops up too, and i'll know immediately it's a fine wine.