<h3>What is enshittification?</h3>
<p>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) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225139/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification" rel="nofollow">source</a></p>
<h3>The lifecycle of Big Internet</h3>
<p>We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.</p>
<h3>Embrace, extend and extinguish</h3>
<p>We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.</p>