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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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI (slrpnk.net)

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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

may not even understand what a file system is or how it works ... which abstract away from the concept of a hard-drive, a User folder, file extensions, etc.

What's funny is, filesystems, folders, file extensions are already abstractions, there is nothing inherently "right" about those particular abstractions, it's just what we've used for 40 some years... Before that, you might just have blocks on a disk, or a linear stream on a tape, and it was up to you to figure out what went where, and how to find it again. Point being, it's all just a sea of bits, regardless of how you organize them- the goal is to organize them in a way that you can forget the sea of bits.