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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"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots (mastodon.de)

submitted 4 months ago by rinze@infosec.pub to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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What the URL above says. It's getting crazy on Xitter.

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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try it in some of the infamous Lemmy instances

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Why? Putin would never want anything more than what is rightfully his I don't see what that has to do with...

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