#enshitternet — Public Fediverse posts
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@whatkatiediduk yeah...
@EUCommission already killed #GooglePlay competitiors like #AndroidPit with absurd regulations.
- Cuz when stuff is getting regulated as if only #GAFAMs exist, you get a #GAFAM-only #Enshitternet! (#Enshittified #Internet).
https://appdevelopermagazine.com/important-announcement:-androidpit-app-center-to-close/
Meanwhile, all it'll do is raise the bar for competitiors and costs for consumers, because all the #Dropshipping fees will be added to the item prices!
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Facebook hält uns als Geiseln, sagt Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) und beschreibt in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom Mi. 3.12., wie Plattformen systematisch schlechter werden. Erst nützlich, dann abhängig machend, schließlich unbrauchbar: Enshittification.
Lesenswertes Interview über digitale Mauern, Lock-ins und die Notwendigkeit von Interoperabilität.
🔗 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/cory-doctorow-internet-konzept-enshittification-li.3341892
#Enshittification #Enshitternet #Verschlimmscheißerung #OpenWeb #GatedCommunityAsAService
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Facebook hält uns als Geiseln, sagt Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) und beschreibt in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom Mi. 3.12., wie Plattformen systematisch schlechter werden. Erst nützlich, dann abhängig machend, schließlich unbrauchbar: Enshittification.
Lesenswertes Interview über digitale Mauern, Lock-ins und die Notwendigkeit von Interoperabilität.
🔗 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/cory-doctorow-internet-konzept-enshittification-li.3341892
#Enshittification #Enshitternet #Verschlimmscheißerung #OpenWeb #GatedCommunityAsAService
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Writer, activist and journalist #CoryDoctorow coined the term #enshittification as a means of explaining the state of the #digital world (or the #enshitternet and how it came to be. In his new #book “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It,” Doctorow details the policy choices that brought the #Internet to what it is today, and how organizing and joining a movement is our path forward.
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@maxleibman Amazon is way past its 'Prime'
"you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
Excerpted from the boook Enshittification
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish#Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #enshittification #enshitternet #enshittogenic #JunkFees
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@maxleibman Amazon is way past its 'Prime'
"you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
Excerpted from the boook Enshittification
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish#Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #enshittification #enshitternet #enshittogenic #JunkFees
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"you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
Excerpted from the boook Enshittification
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbishBuy Cory's book here https://guardianbookshop.com/enshittification-9781836742227/
@pluralistic
#Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #enshittification #enshitternet #enshittogenic #JunkFees -
"you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
Excerpted from the boook Enshittification
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbishBuy Cory's book here https://guardianbookshop.com/enshittification-9781836742227/
@pluralistic
#Amazon #Prime #AmazonPrime #enshittification #enshitternet #enshittogenic #JunkFees -
From the person that brought you #enshittification , please welcome the #enshitternet
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish
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Running a website costs money. If you want an alternative to the #enshitternet, you might need to consider the value in paying for a service, instead of expecting everything to be free.
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Running a website costs money. If you want an alternative to the #enshitternet, you might need to consider the value in paying for a service, instead of expecting everything to be free.
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Breaking The Borders, our #antifa #hiphop festival returns to Glasgow, Sat 22nd June 2024.
Talk: 5-7pm at Milk. 'The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Is there a silver lining to the enshittification of everything?' with @patderieg
Gig: 9pm-3am at Bloc+ FREE ENTRY. Lineup: Selbslaut, Tickle, Ramzee, Ksorki & Sound Thief, Wysten, DJ: SNDO Beats
#coding #glasgow #hiphopindeuk #music #IT #enshitternet #internet #event #scotland #antifascism #ethicalweb #UKHipHop #deutschehiphop #gigs
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What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image and the whole post body just consists of the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance, empty menus and all that... It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life but the fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis #Enshitternet #ContentFarms #Curation #Movies #Cinemastodon #Film @film -
@raydnoper Kuidas ütelda eesti keeles #enshittification? Ma ise olen mõtelnud, et "persereerumine" võiks olla piisavalt kõrgintelligentne tõlkevaste, aga Perse(r/s)net nimisõnana jätab tiba soovida -- samas suur probleem see pole, sest pärisnime tõlkimata jätmine on ka igati tunnustatud strateegia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4 #keeleminut #perseratsioon #enshitternet
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While nostalgia is a toxic impulse (h/t #JohnHodgman), there's no denying that there once existed an old, good web, and that it has given way to the #enshitternet. I don't want to bring the old, good web back, but I would welcome a *new*, good web, and by studying the factors that contributed to the old, good web's rise and fall, we can both conjure up that new, good web - and protect it.
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CW: Long thread/2
While nostalgia is a toxic impulse (h/t #JohnHodgman), there's no denying that there once existed an old, good web, and that it has given way to the #enshitternet. I don't want to bring the old, good web back, but I would welcome a *new*, good web, and by studying the factors that contributed to the old, good web's rise and fall, we can both conjure up that new, good web - and protect it.
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When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the #enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics
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When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the #enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics
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CW: Long thread/18
The enshittification of the old, good web continues apace, but there has never been more energy to build a new, good internet - and banish the #enshitternet of #BigTech to the scrapheap of history.
In the same way, Toronto's much eroded urbanism, pluralism and liveability are both at their lowest ebb in my lifetime - and also at their most hopeful moment of the century.
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CW: Long thread/18
The enshittification of the old, good web continues apace, but there has never been more energy to build a new, good internet - and banish the #enshitternet of #BigTech to the scrapheap of history.
In the same way, Toronto's much eroded urbanism, pluralism and liveability are both at their lowest ebb in my lifetime - and also at their most hopeful moment of the century.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting “Enshitternet” (22 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/
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Pluralistic: Podcasting “Enshitternet” (22 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/
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As a technophile I haven't been this genuinely excited and hopeful about tech in a long while — possibly decades — as I am now for the possibility that the #enshitternet was a phase transition between the old good Internet and the new good Internet I see being built on Fedi and elsewhere.
I'm not naive nor drunk on nostalgia. It could all go horribly wrong like it did the first time. But I'm wiser today and so are the kids so I'm cautiously optimistic we're learning from our mistakes.
I'm borrowing Cory Doctorow's words because they fit so closely to how I've been feeling lately. I will also plug this whitepaper again as being the STEM-iest solarpunk science thing I've read. Those are the two sources for my measured optimism that we'll thread the needle of the polycrisis we're in; but what we do now has a huge impact on how narrow the pass is.
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?
by Michael L. Wong and Stuart Bartlett -
Could be a bit of wishful thinking, but isn't it something we should all be striving for?
"The new, good internet is an internet where we seize the means of computation. It's an internet operated by and for the people who use it."
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/#the-old-good-internet
#OldGoodInternet #NewGoodInternet #TakeThePowerBack #StopEnshittification #Enshitternet #Pluralistic #Doctorow
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CW: Long thread/7
Likewise, the problem wasn't who made that tech. We didn't swap wise UUCP Monks for venal tech bros. Early tech was full of public-spirited sysops, but it was also full of would-be monopolists who tried - and failed - to get us to "stop talking to each other and start buying things":
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
If it wasn't the technology that killed the old, good internet, and if it wasn't the people who killed the old, good internet, where did the #enshitternet come from?
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CW: Long thread/7
Likewise, the problem wasn't who made that tech. We didn't swap wise UUCP Monks for venal tech bros. Early tech was full of public-spirited sysops, but it was also full of would-be monopolists who tried - and failed - to get us to "stop talking to each other and start buying things":
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
If it wasn't the technology that killed the old, good internet, and if it wasn't the people who killed the old, good internet, where did the #enshitternet come from?
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Goodbye #searchengines , it was fun while it lasted. #enshitternet
RE: https://wasnever.cool/users/schmutzie/statuses/110889430788643661
