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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Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only that but noise cancelation Discord use sounds better according to my friends.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Sadly, it does. I hate fucking discord since I've started using it, the quirky facade and everything. We use it as webrtc and I would gladly drop it for anything less clown shoes, but the noise cancelation just works.