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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Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Bl4ze@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile, No Man's Sky is still regularly pushing out quality content for free 8 years after its (admittedly disastrous) launch.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

players Are Upset

Both of them?

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

The real issue is that theres microtransactions in a single player game

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What, no space horse armor?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You have to beat it on expert then you unlock the opportunity to buy it.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

'Voting with our wallet' never stops this. AGPL, software freedom, does.