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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Things Adobe Killed (Macromedia acquisition; Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Funny story: around the mid-2000s, my boss at the time moved me off of web development because his teenage son was really good at Dreamweaver. I was in my 20s, losing my "Webmaster" job to a young whipper snapper.

It was my first wakeup call that young people can always replace you.

Btw - Not shitting on the kid either. He was pretty smart and honestly, I was a really crappy web developer in that era.