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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Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience (bgr.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Insta-what?

I dropped all Meta products years ago and life has been so much better.

[–] downpunxx@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

If you force advertising onto me to use your service, I will block it, failing that, I will stop using your service, full stop.