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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Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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What a perfectly garbage feature.

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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Another upcoming entrant in the small truck market is Telo with their MT1. While more expensive than the base Slate, Telo's even smaller by nearly two feet, seats five, still has a 5 foot bed (that can extend to 8 feet if you fold the back seats), more range, faster charging, more power, option of AWD, more payload capacity, and significantly more towing capacity.

https://www.telotrucks.com/

$41.5k base versus Slate's $27.5k

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

That 4-second 0 to 60 time looks so tempting.