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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f-droid has my condolences (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by godsammitdam@lemmy.zip to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/linuxphones@piefed.ca/p/832312/f-droid-has-my-condolences

Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First three android phones I found in a search proved you wrong.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, imagine in 2026 trying to argue that apple doesn't overcharge for their hardware. Maybe I missed some recent developments but that's been their business model for at least 15 years. Didn't think there were any apple fanboys on lemmy