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)

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh! I had a client a hundred years ago that did a "save as webpage" from a Word doc and wanted me to clean it up... I'm like, "it'll be easier to throw it out and start over", so that's what i did. Then i charged her for the time it would have taken, had i bothered to try and clean up the code. She was happy to pay it!?

[–] kellyaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Argh! Yeah, sometimes it's better to start over than try to fix it. All those weirdass classes and bizarrely nested divs, screw that hahah