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)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (10 children)

What would removing the dates accomplish except making things more confusing and harder to find? What advantage to YouTube is there?

[–] SpeakinTelnet 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My guess is that it makes it easier to suggest you older content that wouldn't be interesting when you can see at a glance how outdated it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have to wonder if advertisers want to advertise on older videos though.

[–] SpeakinTelnet 2 points 5 months ago

Would it really matter if they pay per view?

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