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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And what was wrong with my old widget? (europe.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Spotify has been pissing me off recently. Repeated pop up (internal) ads, and now this. Are there any alternatives that don't require selfhosting?

Cherry on the top: The new widget doesn't work.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

OpenTune

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol another youtube music client

It is almost a meme how many there are

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's because the og one got discontinued and people made a LOT of forks.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cool, checking it out! Do you know if there's a way to import my playlists?

Edit: No widget :(

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you know if there's a way to import my playlists?

I don't think that's possible since this is a YouTube Music client rather than a Spotify one.

Edit: No widget :(

I'm sorry, didn't see if it got a widget. Anyway there's Metrolist (which is basically a fork (the same app but modified)) that got 4 widgets.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, trying it out. Looks like there's 3rd party tools to import Spotify playlists into YT Music