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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Volvo is shipping dangerously buggy cars and this guy's had enough (www.myvolvoex90.com)

submitted 6 days ago by bananaa@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Latest update is that he’s retained a law firm to sue Volvo into providing a refund.

Issues include: complete loss of throttle on the freeway, unable to lock the car, and infotainment screen blackouts (the screen which controls nearly every feature of the car). All in a car that cost over $150,000 CAD 😵

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

If you're in North America, Asian cars are generally gonna be Korean or Japanese, not Chinese. I'd probably say just buy Japanese cars frankly since IIRC they're supposedly the most reliable.