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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YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 41 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Return YouTube dislikes will change to

Return YouTube dislikes + view count + upload date

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Until they shut down / lock down the APIs that allow querying this information.