They’ll nickel and dime us to death.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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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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I flew a lot for the first 20-25 years of my life. My parents were civilians and their checks came from the Department of Defense. We moved a lot, all over the world, and flew within the US 1-3 times every year. Then I got busy and didn't fly even once for about 20 years. I thought that I knew how the system worked, but I was fucking floored with how much shittier the entire process has become.
You know, if they actually did something about the crazy wealth inequality, airlines (and just about every other fucking capitalist transaction in this fucked up country) wouldn't feel such a need to nickle and dime every last coin for the absolute least output.