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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Get ready for "enhancements" and look out for alternatives.

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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Time to shine a light on Joplin! It's FOSS, has great support for your own cloud, powerful plugins and is just an all around fine piece of note taking software

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[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for joplin. I recently switched over to it and I'm a big fan.

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