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YouTube before vs. after massive corporate, profit-driven enshittification
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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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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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Louis Rossmann isn't a developer, but the company he works with (FUTO) was founded by an experienced software developer, and employs multiple devs for their projects like Grayjay, Futo VoiceInput, their android keyboard and other stuff. Not using a FOSS license is an intentional choice, which is why I'm not giving them my money. They should really stop their "source-available paid software license" bullshit, just make it truly FOSS and I'll happily donate.
And btw I'm pretty sure that Louis realizes the differences between source-available and FOSS, he's a smart man.
If he realizes the difference, he should push for full FOSS.