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

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Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

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[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My guess is that it makes it easier to suggest you older content that wouldn't be interesting when you can see at a glance how outdated it is.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand why the hell I would want to watch an old ass YouTube video unless I sought it out.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's pretty much my point. You won't know unless you click

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have to wonder if advertisers want to advertise on older videos though.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Would it really matter if they pay per view?