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 reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts (lemmy.world)

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Instagrams shows you the date and views/likes. Also 20 seconds cat videos or two minute talk video are vastly different to 10mins to 4 hours youtube videos. The time "lost" by wathcing the wrong thing is just very different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

20 seconds cat videos or two minute talk video are vastly different to 10mins to 4 hours youtube videos. The time “lost” by wathcing the wrong thing is just very different. I think it isn't uncommon for users to spend multiple hours per day watching those short clips only to realize most of it was mildly interesting at best and it's less likely someone sits through a 4h video they dont care about than someone watching 4h worth of a variety of short clips they don't really care for. Either way I think taking transparency/agency away from the user is terrible.