Wow, is this true? Does that work?
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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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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Supposedly.
But what happens way more often is idiots spam it to people they disagree with.
Remember when the 4chan kids on Reddit would call people npcs?
This is basically that
OTOH there's zero reason not to spam it at everyone. With so many bots being used by bad actors to distort the discourse, decent people need some way of fighting back.
Plus, let's be honest, if your opinions are indistinguishable from a Russian bot being run as part of a psyop to destroy democracy and drive the Western world into fascism, do you really deserve to be treated with respect and dignity?