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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] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As someone that prefers to watch series in order… wtf?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the homepage, i.e. youtube.com. If you were watching a series, I would imagine you'd go through the channel page, which should still have the upload date visible.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Except YouTube can't count and will show you episode 3 on the home page then recommend episodes 4 7 5 6 8 in that order even if there is a playlist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have encountered so many YouTube playlists of TV shows with everything in reverse order and it's annoying as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That is on the playlist creator. There is even a button in YouTube studio to flip the order.