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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Peloton is adding a $95 activation fee for secondhand machines (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't also require a $50 subscription in order to actually use that screen and don't just use it as a generic ultracheap equipment?

What kind of idiot introduces a fee that discourages new users to become subscribers??

Isn't it better to get a new subscriber that pays every month? Old owner is bored and canceled the subscription already years ago