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  1. As one of the creators of TiVo, I was happy to see this from @pluralistic today:

    "Remember Tivo? The first digital "personal video recorders" were true successors to the VCR. They could record any broadcast or cable program, store it forever and fast forward through the ads. They were all "feature" and nary an "anti-feature" in sight."

    #disenshittification #dmca #interoperability #felonyContemptOfBusinessModel

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gam

  2. As one of the creators of TiVo, I was happy to see this from @pluralistic today:

    "Remember Tivo? The first digital "personal video recorders" were true successors to the VCR. They could record any broadcast or cable program, store it forever and fast forward through the ads. They were all "feature" and nary an "anti-feature" in sight."

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gam

  3. As one of the creators of TiVo, I was happy to see this from @pluralistic today:

    "Remember Tivo? The first digital "personal video recorders" were true successors to the VCR. They could record any broadcast or cable program, store it forever and fast forward through the ads. They were all "feature" and nary an "anti-feature" in sight."

    #disenshittification #dmca #interoperability #felonyContemptOfBusinessModel

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gam

  4. As one of the creators of TiVo, I was happy to see this from @pluralistic today:

    "Remember Tivo? The first digital "personal video recorders" were true successors to the VCR. They could record any broadcast or cable program, store it forever and fast forward through the ads. They were all "feature" and nary an "anti-feature" in sight."

    #disenshittification #dmca #interoperability #felonyContemptOfBusinessModel

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gam

  5. def con 32 – disenshittify or die! how hackers can seize the means of computation – cory doctorow [2024]

    The enshittification of the internet wasn’t inevitable. The old, good internet gave way to the enshitternet because we let our bosses enshittify it. We took away the constraints of competition, regulation, interop and tech worker power, and so when our bosses yanked on the big enshittification lever in the c-suite, it started to budge further and further, toward total enshittification. A new, good internet is possible – and necessary – and it needs you.

    ; Cory Doctorow explains the lifecycle of platform enshittification, detailing how companies move from benefiting users to exploiting them. The talk examines the mechanisms of algorithmic twiddling and how these digital systems lock in users while reducing service utility ;

    #competition #CoryDoctorow #DEFCON #DEFCON32 #disenshittification #disenshittify #DisenshittifyOrDie #enshittification #hack #hackers #hacking #internet #interop #regulation #theOldInternet #totalEnshittification #unions #workerPower
  6. def con 32 – disenshittify or die! how hackers can seize the means of computation – cory doctorow [2024]

    The enshittification of the internet wasn’t inevitable. The old, good internet gave way to the enshitternet because we let our bosses enshittify it. We took away the constraints of competition, regulation, interop and tech worker power, and so when our bosses yanked on the big enshittification lever in the c-suite, it started to budge further and further, toward total enshittification. A new, good internet is possible – and necessary – and it needs you.

    ; Cory Doctorow explains the lifecycle of platform enshittification, detailing how companies move from benefiting users to exploiting them. The talk examines the mechanisms of algorithmic twiddling and how these digital systems lock in users while reducing service utility ;

    #competition #CoryDoctorow #DEFCON #DEFCON32 #disenshittification #disenshittify #DisenshittifyOrDie #enshittification #hack #hackers #hacking #internet #interop #regulation #theOldInternet #totalEnshittification #unions #workerPower
  7. def con 32 – disenshittify or die! how hackers can seize the means of computation – cory doctorow [2024]

    The enshittification of the internet wasn’t inevitable. The old, good internet gave way to the enshitternet because we let our bosses enshittify it. We took away the constraints of competition, regulation, interop and tech worker power, and so when our bosses yanked on the big enshittification lever in the c-suite, it started to budge further and further, toward total enshittification. A new, good internet is possible – and necessary – and it needs you.

    ; Cory Doctorow explains the lifecycle of platform enshittification, detailing how companies move from benefiting users to exploiting them. The talk examines the mechanisms of algorithmic twiddling and how these digital systems lock in users while reducing service utility ;

    #competition #CoryDoctorow #DEFCON #DEFCON32 #disenshittification #disenshittify #DisenshittifyOrDie #enshittification #hack #hackers #hacking #internet #interop #regulation #theOldInternet #totalEnshittification #unions #workerPower
  8. def con 32 – disenshittify or die! how hackers can seize the means of computation – cory doctorow [2024]

    The enshittification of the internet wasn’t inevitable. The old, good internet gave way to the enshitternet because we let our bosses enshittify it. We took away the constraints of competition, regulation, interop and tech worker power, and so when our bosses yanked on the big enshittification lever in the c-suite, it started to budge further and further, toward total enshittification. A new, good internet is possible – and necessary – and it needs you.

    ; Cory Doctorow explains the lifecycle of platform enshittification, detailing how companies move from benefiting users to exploiting them. The talk examines the mechanisms of algorithmic twiddling and how these digital systems lock in users while reducing service utility ;

    #competition #CoryDoctorow #DEFCON #DEFCON32 #disenshittification #disenshittify #DisenshittifyOrDie #enshittification #hack #hackers #hacking #internet #interop #regulation #theOldInternet #totalEnshittification #unions #workerPower
  9. ho visto questo notevole video con Doctorow che ci spiega quanto e come siamo incastrati chiusi a chiave nelle piattaforme proprietarie. e come le soluzioni alternative non siano impossibili. & much more.
    purtroppo anche questo video è... su una piattaforma proprietaria: youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8

    #corydoctorow #defcon #piattaforme #piattaformeproprietarie #instagram #tiktok #facebook #amazon #youtube #google
    @fediverso
    @unoacademy
    @fedilove
    #fediverso
    #enshittification #disenshittification

  10. ho visto questo notevole video con Doctorow che ci spiega quanto e come siamo incastrati chiusi a chiave nelle piattaforme proprietarie. e come le soluzioni alternative non siano impossibili. & much more.
    purtroppo anche questo video è... su una piattaforma proprietaria: youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8

    #corydoctorow #defcon #piattaforme #piattaformeproprietarie #instagram #tiktok #facebook #amazon #youtube #google
    @fediverso
    @unoacademy
    @fedilove
    #fediverso
    #enshittification #disenshittification

  11. ho visto questo notevole video con Doctorow che ci spiega quanto e come siamo incastrati chiusi a chiave nelle piattaforme proprietarie. e come le soluzioni alternative non siano impossibili. & much more.
    purtroppo anche questo video è... su una piattaforma proprietaria: youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8

    #corydoctorow #defcon #piattaforme #piattaformeproprietarie #instagram #tiktok #facebook #amazon #youtube #google
    @fediverso
    @unoacademy
    @fedilove
    #fediverso
    #enshittification #disenshittification

  12. ho visto questo notevole video con Doctorow che ci spiega quanto e come siamo incastrati chiusi a chiave nelle piattaforme proprietarie. e come le soluzioni alternative non siano impossibili. & much more.
    purtroppo anche questo video è... su una piattaforma proprietaria: youtu.be/4EmstuO0Em8

    #corydoctorow #defcon #piattaforme #piattaformeproprietarie #instagram #tiktok #facebook #amazon #youtube #google
    @fediverso
    @unoacademy
    @fedilove
    #fediverso
    #enshittification #disenshittification

  13. RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11661

    The way I have Google Search set up, I can search "disregard" with no problems (for now)

    merriam-webster.com, cambridge.org, cornell.edu are the top 3 results

    #disenshittification #retrocomputing #winning

  14. RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11661

    The way I have Google Search set up, I can search "disregard" with no problems (for now)

    merriam-webster.com, cambridge.org, cornell.edu are the top 3 results

    #disenshittification #retrocomputing #winning

  15. RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11661

    The way I have Google Search set up, I can search "disregard" with no problems (for now)

    merriam-webster.com, cambridge.org, cornell.edu are the top 3 results

    #disenshittification #retrocomputing #winning

  16. RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11661

    The way I have Google Search set up, I can search "disregard" with no problems (for now)

    merriam-webster.com, cambridge.org, cornell.edu are the top 3 results

    #disenshittification #retrocomputing #winning

  17. @fedipete

    Here's my #Disenshittification journey so far:

    Twitter > Mastodon & Bluesky
    Instagram > PixelFed
    Spotify > SoundCloud
    Amazon Prime > host giveaway events, thrift, shop at fam owned
    Diff browsers > Waterfox
    G Maps > OrganicMaps
    Gmail > Proton
    Google Cloud > Local harddrive

    I deleted a lot of digital stuff, files etc. Installing the Material file manager on my Xiaomi/Android phone was a BIG upgrade there.

    Tried to get Fdroid or Aurora, but they don't show in my Google Play..?

  18. @fedipete

    Here's my #Disenshittification journey so far:

    Twitter > Mastodon & Bluesky
    Instagram > PixelFed
    Spotify > SoundCloud
    Amazon Prime > host giveaway events, thrift, shop at fam owned
    Diff browsers > Waterfox
    G Maps > OrganicMaps
    Gmail > Proton
    Google Cloud > Local harddrive

    I deleted a lot of digital stuff, files etc. Installing the Material file manager on my Xiaomi/Android phone was a BIG upgrade there.

    Tried to get Fdroid or Aurora, but they don't show in my Google Play..?

  19. @fedipete

    Here's my #Disenshittification journey so far:

    Twitter > Mastodon & Bluesky
    Instagram > PixelFed
    Spotify > SoundCloud
    Amazon Prime > host giveaway events, thrift, shop at fam owned
    Diff browsers > Waterfox
    G Maps > OrganicMaps
    Gmail > Proton
    Google Cloud > Local harddrive

    I deleted a lot of digital stuff, files etc. Installing the Material file manager on my Xiaomi/Android phone was a BIG upgrade there.

    Tried to get Fdroid or Aurora, but they don't show in my Google Play..?

  20. @fedipete

    Here's my #Disenshittification journey so far:

    Twitter > Mastodon & Bluesky
    Instagram > PixelFed
    Spotify > SoundCloud
    Amazon Prime > host giveaway events, thrift, shop at fam owned
    Diff browsers > Waterfox
    G Maps > OrganicMaps
    Gmail > Proton
    Google Cloud > Local harddrive

    I deleted a lot of digital stuff, files etc. Installing the Material file manager on my Xiaomi/Android phone was a BIG upgrade there.

    Tried to get Fdroid or Aurora, but they don't show in my Google Play..?

  21. techhub.social/@fedipete/11... What I did re #Disenshittification? Twitter > Mastodon & Bluesky Instagram > PixelFed Spotify > SoundCloud Amazon Prime > host giveaway events, thrift, shop at fam owned Diff browsers > Waterfox G Maps > OrganicMaps Gmail > Proton Google Cloud > Local harddrive

    fedipete (@[email protected]...

  22. Davvero interessante l'intervento che Cory Doctorow ha tenuto il 28 gennaio al 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit a Ottawa. Presenta una strategia, politica ed economica per il Canada, ma non solo, per liberarsi dal dominio delle #BigTech USA.

    Qui il video: archive.org/details/disenshitt
    e qui la trascrizione: pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/pos

    E la traduzione di un breve estratto dall'apertura del suo intervento.

    "Quindi oggi non ho suggerimenti da darvi su come perdere miliardi di dollari. Non ho idee su come distruggere il maggior numero possibile di posti di lavoro canadesi, né su come rendere il Canada più dipendente dai giganti tecnologici statunitensi.

    No, tutto quello che ho da offrirvi oggi è un piano per far guadagnare al Canada decine di miliardi di dollari, offrendo prodotti e servizi che la gente vuole e per cui è disposta a pagare, garantendo al contempo la resilienza e la sovranità digitale del Paese, vincendo la guerra commerciale, liberando il popolo americano e lanciando il nostro settore tecnologico in un'orbita stabile per i prossimi decenni."

    #disenshittification #CoryDoctorow #SovranitàDigitale #dazi #Trump #ElbowsUp #SicurezzaNazionale

    @scuola
    @informapirata
    @opensource
    @lealternative
    @quinta
    @Khrys
    @RFancio
    @linux
    @pluralistic
    @maupao
    @lindasartini
    @mcp
    @lgsp

  23. Davvero interessante l'intervento che Cory Doctorow ha tenuto il 28 gennaio al 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit a Ottawa. Presenta una strategia, politica ed economica per il Canada, ma non solo, per liberarsi dal dominio delle #BigTech USA.

    Qui il video: archive.org/details/disenshitt
    e qui la trascrizione: pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/pos

    E la traduzione di un breve estratto dall'apertura del suo intervento.

    "Quindi oggi non ho suggerimenti da darvi su come perdere miliardi di dollari. Non ho idee su come distruggere il maggior numero possibile di posti di lavoro canadesi, né su come rendere il Canada più dipendente dai giganti tecnologici statunitensi.

    No, tutto quello che ho da offrirvi oggi è un piano per far guadagnare al Canada decine di miliardi di dollari, offrendo prodotti e servizi che la gente vuole e per cui è disposta a pagare, garantendo al contempo la resilienza e la sovranità digitale del Paese, vincendo la guerra commerciale, liberando il popolo americano e lanciando il nostro settore tecnologico in un'orbita stabile per i prossimi decenni."

    #disenshittification #CoryDoctorow #SovranitàDigitale #dazi #Trump #ElbowsUp #SicurezzaNazionale

    @scuola
    @informapirata
    @opensource
    @lealternative
    @quinta
    @Khrys
    @RFancio
    @linux
    @pluralistic
    @maupao
    @lindasartini
    @mcp
    @lgsp

  24. Davvero interessante l'intervento che Cory Doctorow ha tenuto il 28 gennaio al 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit a Ottawa. Presenta una strategia, politica ed economica per il Canada, ma non solo, per liberarsi dal dominio delle #BigTech USA.

    Qui il video: archive.org/details/disenshitt
    e qui la trascrizione: pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/pos

    E la traduzione di un breve estratto dall'apertura del suo intervento.

    "Quindi oggi non ho suggerimenti da darvi su come perdere miliardi di dollari. Non ho idee su come distruggere il maggior numero possibile di posti di lavoro canadesi, né su come rendere il Canada più dipendente dai giganti tecnologici statunitensi.

    No, tutto quello che ho da offrirvi oggi è un piano per far guadagnare al Canada decine di miliardi di dollari, offrendo prodotti e servizi che la gente vuole e per cui è disposta a pagare, garantendo al contempo la resilienza e la sovranità digitale del Paese, vincendo la guerra commerciale, liberando il popolo americano e lanciando il nostro settore tecnologico in un'orbita stabile per i prossimi decenni."

    #disenshittification #CoryDoctorow #SovranitàDigitale #dazi #Trump #ElbowsUp #SicurezzaNazionale

    @scuola
    @informapirata
    @opensource
    @lealternative
    @quinta
    @Khrys
    @RFancio
    @linux
    @pluralistic
    @maupao
    @lindasartini
    @mcp
    @lgsp

  25. Davvero interessante l'intervento che Cory Doctorow ha tenuto il 28 gennaio al 2026 Digital Government Leaders Summit a Ottawa. Presenta una strategia, politica ed economica per il Canada, ma non solo, per liberarsi dal dominio delle #BigTech USA.

    Qui il video: archive.org/details/disenshitt
    e qui la trascrizione: pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/pos

    E la traduzione di un breve estratto dall'apertura del suo intervento.

    "Quindi oggi non ho suggerimenti da darvi su come perdere miliardi di dollari. Non ho idee su come distruggere il maggior numero possibile di posti di lavoro canadesi, né su come rendere il Canada più dipendente dai giganti tecnologici statunitensi.

    No, tutto quello che ho da offrirvi oggi è un piano per far guadagnare al Canada decine di miliardi di dollari, offrendo prodotti e servizi che la gente vuole e per cui è disposta a pagare, garantendo al contempo la resilienza e la sovranità digitale del Paese, vincendo la guerra commerciale, liberando il popolo americano e lanciando il nostro settore tecnologico in un'orbita stabile per i prossimi decenni."

    #disenshittification #CoryDoctorow #SovranitàDigitale #dazi #Trump #ElbowsUp #SicurezzaNazionale

    @scuola
    @informapirata
    @opensource
    @lealternative
    @quinta
    @Khrys
    @RFancio
    @linux
    @pluralistic
    @maupao
    @lindasartini
    @mcp
    @lgsp

  26. This week in :

    Finally cut the Gmail cord and moved to

    Took a few hours of futzing with DNS settings at my registrar, getting to know , and figuring out what to use for calendar because unlike on the dektop doesn't include the calendar on .

    Eventually landed on synced to via .Setup was quite smooth. Really the biggest time sink was in deciding what to use.

    This was one of the big steps towards liberating myself from Google's clutches. I'm very glad it's done.

  27. So on today's #MastodonMonday to-do list:

    1. Start planning the #disenshittification move to self hosting and further reduction in US-based tech.

    2. Move what little I have invested / in my pension to non-US funds.

    I'm no longer prepared to support a rogue nation state that is fundamentally determined to fuck with the world order regardless of the cost.

    Bonus points for sitting on something painful while doing this to externalise the right royal pain in the arse that this has become.

  28. So on today's #MastodonMonday to-do list:

    1. Start planning the #disenshittification move to self hosting and further reduction in US-based tech.

    2. Move what little I have invested / in my pension to non-US funds.

    I'm no longer prepared to support a rogue nation state that is fundamentally determined to fuck with the world order regardless of the cost.

    Bonus points for sitting on something painful while doing this to externalise the right royal pain in the arse that this has become.

  29. So on today's #MastodonMonday to-do list:

    1. Start planning the #disenshittification move to self hosting and further reduction in US-based tech.

    2. Move what little I have invested / in my pension to non-US funds.

    I'm no longer prepared to support a rogue nation state that is fundamentally determined to fuck with the world order regardless of the cost.

    Bonus points for sitting on something painful while doing this to externalise the right royal pain in the arse that this has become.

  30. @maxschrems We could counter with an equally stupid tariff... or we could do the smarter thing and abolish the anti-circumvention laws that we originally passed against our interests just because the US threatened tariffs otherwise. Now that we get tariffs there is no reason to stay captured by US tech companies. We could have right to repair laws and the right to write, distribute and buy software for the products we buy. There is no reason that John Deere can brick all of Europe's tractors at the same time (or Tesla all Teslas, Apple all iPhones, Microsoft all office suites etc) other than that we agreed to stupid deals in the past to avoid tariffs, which we get now anyway.

    See media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

    #EU #Disenshittification

  31. @maxschrems We could counter with an equally stupid tariff... or we could do the smarter thing and abolish the anti-circumvention laws that we originally passed against our interests just because the US threatened tariffs otherwise. Now that we get tariffs there is no reason to stay captured by US tech companies. We could have right to repair laws and the right to write, distribute and buy software for the products we buy. There is no reason that John Deere can brick all of Europe's tractors at the same time (or Tesla all Teslas, Apple all iPhones, Microsoft all office suites etc) other than that we agreed to stupid deals in the past to avoid tariffs, which we get now anyway.

    See media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

    #EU #Disenshittification

  32. @maxschrems We could counter with an equally stupid tariff... or we could do the smarter thing and abolish the anti-circumvention laws that we originally passed against our interests just because the US threatened tariffs otherwise. Now that we get tariffs there is no reason to stay captured by US tech companies. We could have right to repair laws and the right to write, distribute and buy software for the products we buy. There is no reason that John Deere can brick all of Europe's tractors at the same time (or Tesla all Teslas, Apple all iPhones, Microsoft all office suites etc) other than that we agreed to stupid deals in the past to avoid tariffs, which we get now anyway.

    See media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

    #EU #Disenshittification

  33. @maxschrems We could counter with an equally stupid tariff... or we could do the smarter thing and abolish the anti-circumvention laws that we originally passed against our interests just because the US threatened tariffs otherwise. Now that we get tariffs there is no reason to stay captured by US tech companies. We could have right to repair laws and the right to write, distribute and buy software for the products we buy. There is no reason that John Deere can brick all of Europe's tractors at the same time (or Tesla all Teslas, Apple all iPhones, Microsoft all office suites etc) other than that we agreed to stupid deals in the past to avoid tariffs, which we get now anyway.

    See media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame

    #EU #Disenshittification

  34. So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

    But they seemed so nice....

    This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

    For the EU talk:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

    It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

    #PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

  35. So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

    But they seemed so nice....

    This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

    For the EU talk:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

    It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

    #PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

  36. So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

    But they seemed so nice....

    This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

    For the EU talk:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

    It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

    #PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

  37. So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

    But they seemed so nice....

    This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not

    For the EU talk:

    pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

    It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

    #PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

  38. Current state of my personal #Disenshittification journey.

    Completed:
    Twitter -> Mastodon
    Instagram -> PixelFed
    Amazon Prime -> shopping locally or direct from manufacturer
    Amazon Kindle -> Libby / Hoopla
    Amazon Audible -> Libby / Hoopla
    Goodreads -> Bookwyrm
    Google Search -> DuckDuckGo
    Google Maps -> OrganicMaps / OpenStreetMap
    Google Keep Notes -> NotallyX ( from #fdroid )
    GitHub -> CodeBerg
    Gillette -> Standard razor shaver (Albatros)
    Gmail -> FastMail
    Google Cloud backup -> Immich
    Stock Android -> Graphene

    Next:
    ??