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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 didn’t know Frontpage was ever not a Microsoft product. It was on all our computers at school when I was in high school. When I first started making webpages with it it seemed cool, but as I learned more I was shocked at how bad it was. Still, it was just playing around in there that introduced me to how HTML worked, so I’ll give it a little credit for introducing me to the web.
You never forget your first WYSIWYG HTML editor. Mine was Adobe Pagemill, which doesn't exist anymore but was also purchased from another software company. Ok, I shit on Frontpage a lot, maybe I've been too harsh. Those early WYSIWYGs helped us take those first few baby steps, and that's so important in the learning process. Like, I'm just now realizing this, but I think I owe my web development career to Pagemill, lol. That little program (as we used to call them, you remember) made it easy for me, I was like "uh...I think I can do this!"