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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[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Yup. I'm teaching my son CAD/CAM with a 3d printer, low level programming and electronics with Arduino, he helps with mechanical and electrical repairs. Linux with the home server. Fishing, hunting, and camping. Wasn't ready this year for steers or chickens but hopefully will next year. Wife is teaching him how to cook, (I'm a decent cook, but she is amazing). Simple sewing. Basic carpentry. And so on.

School isn't going to teach him much of this, but we will.