-what's that loud noise?
-just my new phone
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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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Sorry babe, I can’t call tonight, the wifi calling on my washing machine isn’t working
No thank you. I don't even make calls on my phone. I'm not paying a subscription to send data about my habits to Samsung.
This is just another way to spy/sell user data. Not today, devil.
Must be a pretty small segment of the market that wants this much technology in a vacuum but won't just buy a Roomba
Corporations have really ruined "bespoke" for me
They heard customers say they needed the vacuum to suck more, and they delivered the only way they knew how...