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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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Kdenlive
Kdenlive is the precise opposite experience of this meme! It is awesome.
I had to suggest something to people seeing this meme and not knowing where to turn. Otherwise, they may try using Shotcut.
Yeah I already tried shotcut and it was usable but not great, it has trouble with audio preview. Swapped to kdenlive and no issues
Well then here is a handy link right to kdenlive's website to make it as easy as possible for people to check out!
https://kdenlive.org/
I'm voting for kdenlive. And krita for image creation, I use both (although my wife uses the tiktok editor whatever it's called on her phone and her videos are great, so there's that..)
*capcut it's called capcut apparently the free version is pretty good although I dunno if it works on desktop
Not sure why everyone keeps on using Capcut on Android other than to stay under Bytedance's ecosystem. In my experience InShot works much better and is much friendlier. For better results it's worthwhile to just wait and use decent desktop software though. Smartphone apps should be a last resort.
This looks like a phone app though?
It's Linux software, idk if there's some phone thing by the same name, but I've used it a little. It's pretty good.
Yes I’m aware. I prefer OpenShot myself. But at first glance it doesn’t look like OP is on a desktop.
Every time I've tried to use OpenShot it's crashed 75 times before I even load all my footage in.
ah my mistake, thought you had looked up Kdenlive and mistook it for a phone app
they were saying the photo in the post looks like a phone app
From which version onward?