#enshittifcation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #enshittifcation, aggregated by home.social.
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I was going through YouTube today and realized that I don't really like YouTube anymore. From the Face and AI Slop thumbnails, rage bait titles to so many channels being shills for different companies. And that is even before the algo pushes terrible suggestions.
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I was going through YouTube today and realized that I don't really like YouTube anymore. From the Face and AI Slop thumbnails, rage bait titles to so many channels being shills for different companies. And that is even before the algo pushes terrible suggestions.
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I was going through YouTube today and realized that I don't really like YouTube anymore. From the Face and AI Slop thumbnails, rage bait titles to so many channels being shills for different companies. And that is even before the algo pushes terrible suggestions.
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I used to read Space Daily regularly, but recently it has transformed into a useless #LLM #slop -filled site. It's far from the only one. This is a great piece on the very human a-holes behind this particular form of #AI #enshittifcation...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/post/3mvpwuz62jc2p -
I used to read Space Daily regularly, but recently it has transformed into a useless #LLM #slop -filled site. It's far from the only one. This is a great piece on the very human a-holes behind this particular form of #AI #enshittifcation...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/post/3mvpwuz62jc2p -
I used to read Space Daily regularly, but recently it has transformed into a useless #LLM #slop -filled site. It's far from the only one. This is a great piece on the very human a-holes behind this particular form of #AI #enshittifcation...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/post/3mvpwuz62jc2p -
I used to read Space Daily regularly, but recently it has transformed into a useless #LLM #slop -filled site. It's far from the only one. This is a great piece on the very human a-holes behind this particular form of #AI #enshittifcation...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/post/3mvpwuz62jc2p -
The more I think about it, the more the "I host my code on GitHub because of the network effects" argument becomes bullshit, even without taking into account the rubbish bin fire it evolved into. GitLab also.
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The more I think about it, the more the "I host my code on GitHub because of the network effects" argument becomes bullshit, even without taking into account the rubbish bin fire it evolved into. GitLab also.
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The more I think about it, the more the "I host my code on GitHub because of the network effects" argument becomes bullshit, even without taking into account the rubbish bin fire it evolved into. GitLab also.
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Fresh #enshittifcation example for y’all:
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hss3j2uwxdxklj6f3bx7ch5y/post/3miei6to2u22j -
Fresh #enshittifcation example for y’all:
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hss3j2uwxdxklj6f3bx7ch5y/post/3miei6to2u22j -
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849
This is funny and aggravating at the same time. #enshittifcation #MakeItShitty
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849
This is funny and aggravating at the same time. #enshittifcation #MakeItShitty
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This lunch I've continued my #degoogle journey. I have removed my digital display from service as the #enshittifcation from useful assistant to ignorant AI has meant it is no more than an unreliable timer. It couldn't give me a distance measurement by car to a destination either, just the time it would take on public transport. Not what I asked. Couldn't even keep a timer going. "Set Timer" "How long left? "No timer set". I will be flashing the firmware this weekend and converting it to a more useful touchscreen.
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This lunch I've continued my #degoogle journey. I have removed my digital display from service as the #enshittifcation from useful assistant to ignorant AI has meant it is no more than an unreliable timer. It couldn't give me a distance measurement by car to a destination either, just the time it would take on public transport. Not what I asked. Couldn't even keep a timer going. "Set Timer" "How long left? "No timer set". I will be flashing the firmware this weekend and converting it to a more useful touchscreen.
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"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
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"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
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"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
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Another one bites the enshittification dust. Topaz Labs photo editing apps have no gone to a subscription model and done so in a not particularly transparent way, at least for those of us who already owned their older apps. I bought Video AI and Photo AI a year ago,, but didn't realize that apparently Photo AI is a subscription that seems to have now turned into Topaz Photos and is $400/year. Uh, no thanks.
I'm going back and forth with their customer support, asking for clarification, since what changed and when is anything but clear.
All I know is I got a 3-day renewal notice for $400 (but with some random large discount to soften the sticker shock). Had this happened last week, when I was AFK in Mexico, I would've been charged and had to fight it. 3 days notice after transitioning to a new subscription model seems not just sneaky, but manipulative.
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Another one bites the enshittification dust. Topaz Labs photo editing apps have no gone to a subscription model and done so in a not particularly transparent way, at least for those of us who already owned their older apps. I bought Video AI and Photo AI a year ago,, but didn't realize that apparently Photo AI is a subscription that seems to have now turned into Topaz Photos and is $400/year. Uh, no thanks.
I'm going back and forth with their customer support, asking for clarification, since what changed and when is anything but clear.
All I know is I got a 3-day renewal notice for $400 (but with some random large discount to soften the sticker shock). Had this happened last week, when I was AFK in Mexico, I would've been charged and had to fight it. 3 days notice after transitioning to a new subscription model seems not just sneaky, but manipulative.
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Another one bites the enshittification dust. Topaz Labs photo editing apps have no gone to a subscription model and done so in a not particularly transparent way, at least for those of us who already owned their older apps. I bought Video AI and Photo AI a year ago,, but didn't realize that apparently Photo AI is a subscription that seems to have now turned into Topaz Photos and is $400/year. Uh, no thanks.
I'm going back and forth with their customer support, asking for clarification, since what changed and when is anything but clear.
All I know is I got a 3-day renewal notice for $400 (but with some random large discount to soften the sticker shock). Had this happened last week, when I was AFK in Mexico, I would've been charged and had to fight it. 3 days notice after transitioning to a new subscription model seems not just sneaky, but manipulative.
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Another one bites the enshittification dust. Topaz Labs photo editing apps have no gone to a subscription model and done so in a not particularly transparent way, at least for those of us who already owned their older apps. I bought Video AI and Photo AI a year ago,, but didn't realize that apparently Photo AI is a subscription that seems to have now turned into Topaz Photos and is $400/year. Uh, no thanks.
I'm going back and forth with their customer support, asking for clarification, since what changed and when is anything but clear.
All I know is I got a 3-day renewal notice for $400 (but with some random large discount to soften the sticker shock). Had this happened last week, when I was AFK in Mexico, I would've been charged and had to fight it. 3 days notice after transitioning to a new subscription model seems not just sneaky, but manipulative.
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“The device costs $600, and, like just about everything else that exists these days, the Dekoda product requires a subscription to utilize, coming in at $6.99/month for a single person, and $12.99/month for up to five people.”
iShit you not.
#enshittifcation
https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/that-looks-shtty-kohler-launches-600-toilet-camera-to-monitor-your-gut-health/ -
“The device costs $600, and, like just about everything else that exists these days, the Dekoda product requires a subscription to utilize, coming in at $6.99/month for a single person, and $12.99/month for up to five people.”
iShit you not.
#enshittifcation
https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/that-looks-shtty-kohler-launches-600-toilet-camera-to-monitor-your-gut-health/ -
“The device costs $600, and, like just about everything else that exists these days, the Dekoda product requires a subscription to utilize, coming in at $6.99/month for a single person, and $12.99/month for up to five people.”
iShit you not.
#enshittifcation
https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/that-looks-shtty-kohler-launches-600-toilet-camera-to-monitor-your-gut-health/ -
“The device costs $600, and, like just about everything else that exists these days, the Dekoda product requires a subscription to utilize, coming in at $6.99/month for a single person, and $12.99/month for up to five people.”
iShit you not.
#enshittifcation
https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/that-looks-shtty-kohler-launches-600-toilet-camera-to-monitor-your-gut-health/ -
Could the AWS outage have been prevented by unionization?
An argument goes that if you can and do treat people like shit, they will leave. If they leave, they will take their skill and knowledge with them and you won't benefit from expertise to prevent harm to the business.
We recommend this opinion piece from The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Let this be a warning on the costs of RTO Bullying and Layoff Roulette!
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Could the AWS outage have been prevented by unionization?
An argument goes that if you can and do treat people like shit, they will leave. If they leave, they will take their skill and knowledge with them and you won't benefit from expertise to prevent harm to the business.
We recommend this opinion piece from The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Let this be a warning on the costs of RTO Bullying and Layoff Roulette!
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Could the AWS outage have been prevented by unionization?
An argument goes that if you can and do treat people like shit, they will leave. If they leave, they will take their skill and knowledge with them and you won't benefit from expertise to prevent harm to the business.
We recommend this opinion piece from The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Let this be a warning on the costs of RTO Bullying and Layoff Roulette!
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Cory Doctorow will speak about "enshittification" and what tech unions can do about it on Nov 18th. If you're interested you can register here:
Many thanks to the UK workers' union movement for organizing what I'm sure will be an interesting talk!
#union #unions #enshittifcation #Tech #doctorow #corydoctorow
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Cory Doctorow will speak about "enshittification" and what tech unions can do about it on Nov 18th. If you're interested you can register here:
Many thanks to the UK workers' union movement for organizing what I'm sure will be an interesting talk!
#union #unions #enshittifcation #Tech #doctorow #corydoctorow
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Cory Doctorow will speak about "enshittification" and what tech unions can do about it on Nov 18th. If you're interested you can register here:
Many thanks to the UK workers' union movement for organizing what I'm sure will be an interesting talk!
#union #unions #enshittifcation #Tech #doctorow #corydoctorow
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This is in-fuckin-sane. #enshittifcation of EU at full speed
Europeans' health data sold to U.S. firm run by ex-Israeli spies - Feddit UK
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This is in-fuckin-sane. #enshittifcation of EU at full speed
Europeans' health data sold to U.S. firm run by ex-Israeli spies - Feddit UK
https://feddit.uk/post/37636489 -
This is in-fuckin-sane. #enshittifcation of EU at full speed
Europeans' health data sold to U.S. firm run by ex-Israeli spies - Feddit UK
https://feddit.uk/post/37636489 -
This is in-fuckin-sane. #enshittifcation of EU at full speed
Europeans' health data sold to U.S. firm run by ex-Israeli spies - Feddit UK
https://feddit.uk/post/37636489 -
couldn't say it better...
The only way to escape the hellish state of the current internet is to pursue options that drag the network back towards its decentralized state; a state where corporations are unable to control who we talk to, what we see, where our attention is for five or more hours a day, every day.
This will keep happening until we abandon centralization and choose and free, open source, decentralized future. Or else the beatings will continue until morale improves.
via @posts
https://audiovalentine.com/2024/09/the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/#BeYourOwnPlatform #enshittifcation #autonomy #decentralization
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couldn't say it better...
The only way to escape the hellish state of the current internet is to pursue options that drag the network back towards its decentralized state; a state where corporations are unable to control who we talk to, what we see, where our attention is for five or more hours a day, every day.
This will keep happening until we abandon centralization and choose and free, open source, decentralized future. Or else the beatings will continue until morale improves.
via @posts
https://audiovalentine.com/2024/09/the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/#BeYourOwnPlatform #enshittifcation #autonomy #decentralization
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couldn't say it better...
The only way to escape the hellish state of the current internet is to pursue options that drag the network back towards its decentralized state; a state where corporations are unable to control who we talk to, what we see, where our attention is for five or more hours a day, every day.
This will keep happening until we abandon centralization and choose and free, open source, decentralized future. Or else the beatings will continue until morale improves.
via @posts
https://audiovalentine.com/2024/09/the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/#BeYourOwnPlatform #enshittifcation #autonomy #decentralization
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@Em0nM4stodon
(Beyond yours)Don't: the lightest weight (*smartphones to clothes washing machines to microwave ovens to saws & all in-between)
And on most devices: wifi/internet connectivity
Do: Durability
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@Em0nM4stodon
(Beyond yours)Don't: the lightest weight (*smartphones to clothes washing machines to microwave ovens to saws & all in-between)
And on most devices: wifi/internet connectivity
Do: Durability
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@Em0nM4stodon
(Beyond yours)Don't: the lightest weight (*smartphones to clothes washing machines to microwave ovens to saws & all in-between)
And on most devices: wifi/internet connectivity
Do: Durability
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I was around when Netscape launched the Mozilla project, and how they (and later AOL) tried to keep the Netscape suite alive by adding more and more bloated crapware to it. No body wanted any of it, so no one used it, and Netscape Navigator was blown away when Firefox arrived on the scene.
Cut to today and looking at OMG's news about the latest FF 142 release it 100% feels like Mozilla corp is pulling the exact same shit moves Netscape/AOL was 20 years ago. No one wants topic-based new tab page recommended stories. No one wants AI generated tab groups. No one wants to buy a VPN service from their browser vendor. All this crap is getting piled into FF by a dying vendor desperate to turn a buck, but all it is doing is driving people away.
Honestly, I don't know what Mozilla could do now to fix the problem (maybe not have incorporated and try to run the project like a for-profit company in the first place perhaps?), but maybe the solution is in fact a full community fork, like Libreoffice, or, like oh yeah OG Mozilla.
Or maybe (and this is what I'm hoping) Servo is to Mozilla today what Mozilla originally was to Netscape all those years ago - a soon--to-be successful community-run browser project cast off by a dying browser company. A plucky alternative to the incumbent monopoly's rapidly stagnating browser, IE. Err, I mean Chrome.
Here's hoping! Or even better, go contribute! https://servo.org/
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I was around when Netscape launched the Mozilla project, and how they (and later AOL) tried to keep the Netscape suite alive by adding more and more bloated crapware to it. No body wanted any of it, so no one used it, and Netscape Navigator was blown away when Firefox arrived on the scene.
Cut to today and looking at OMG's news about the latest FF 142 release it 100% feels like Mozilla corp is pulling the exact same shit moves Netscape/AOL was 20 years ago. No one wants topic-based new tab page recommended stories. No one wants AI generated tab groups. No one wants to buy a VPN service from their browser vendor. All this crap is getting piled into FF by a dying vendor desperate to turn a buck, but all it is doing is driving people away.
Honestly, I don't know what Mozilla could do now to fix the problem (maybe not have incorporated and try to run the project like a for-profit company in the first place perhaps?), but maybe the solution is in fact a full community fork, like Libreoffice, or, like oh yeah OG Mozilla.
Or maybe (and this is what I'm hoping) Servo is to Mozilla today what Mozilla originally was to Netscape all those years ago - a soon--to-be successful community-run browser project cast off by a dying browser company. A plucky alternative to the incumbent monopoly's rapidly stagnating browser, IE. Err, I mean Chrome.
Here's hoping! Or even better, go contribute! https://servo.org/
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I was around when Netscape launched the Mozilla project, and how they (and later AOL) tried to keep the Netscape suite alive by adding more and more bloated crapware to it. No body wanted any of it, so no one used it, and Netscape Navigator was blown away when Firefox arrived on the scene.
Cut to today and looking at OMG's news about the latest FF 142 release it 100% feels like Mozilla corp is pulling the exact same shit moves Netscape/AOL was 20 years ago. No one wants topic-based new tab page recommended stories. No one wants AI generated tab groups. No one wants to buy a VPN service from their browser vendor. All this crap is getting piled into FF by a dying vendor desperate to turn a buck, but all it is doing is driving people away.
Honestly, I don't know what Mozilla could do now to fix the problem (maybe not have incorporated and try to run the project like a for-profit company in the first place perhaps?), but maybe the solution is in fact a full community fork, like Libreoffice, or, like oh yeah OG Mozilla.
Or maybe (and this is what I'm hoping) Servo is to Mozilla today what Mozilla originally was to Netscape all those years ago - a soon--to-be successful community-run browser project cast off by a dying browser company. A plucky alternative to the incumbent monopoly's rapidly stagnating browser, IE. Err, I mean Chrome.
Here's hoping! Or even better, go contribute! https://servo.org/
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Alberta’s UCP government makes important breakthrough in Internet enshittification
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Alberta’s UCP government makes important breakthrough in Internet enshittification
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I am attempting to delete the contents of a Gmail account that I created and began using in 2008.
I have already downloaded the entire mail file, and imported it into Thunderbird, so I won't lose anything relevant.
However, deleting the messages from Gmail is proving to be a challenge. You can select everything and "send it to the trash" but only 100 messages get dumped in at a time, and Gmail throws this unusual error message that seems to indicate they will continue doing this work in the background, but in 24 hours of doing this, none of the work appears to be getting done in the background. The message count remains the same.
So does anyone know how to actually trick Gmail into letting me completely empty this inbox other than 100 messages at a time?
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I am attempting to delete the contents of a Gmail account that I created and began using in 2008.
I have already downloaded the entire mail file, and imported it into Thunderbird, so I won't lose anything relevant.
However, deleting the messages from Gmail is proving to be a challenge. You can select everything and "send it to the trash" but only 100 messages get dumped in at a time, and Gmail throws this unusual error message that seems to indicate they will continue doing this work in the background, but in 24 hours of doing this, none of the work appears to be getting done in the background. The message count remains the same.
So does anyone know how to actually trick Gmail into letting me completely empty this inbox other than 100 messages at a time?
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I am attempting to delete the contents of a Gmail account that I created and began using in 2008.
I have already downloaded the entire mail file, and imported it into Thunderbird, so I won't lose anything relevant.
However, deleting the messages from Gmail is proving to be a challenge. You can select everything and "send it to the trash" but only 100 messages get dumped in at a time, and Gmail throws this unusual error message that seems to indicate they will continue doing this work in the background, but in 24 hours of doing this, none of the work appears to be getting done in the background. The message count remains the same.
So does anyone know how to actually trick Gmail into letting me completely empty this inbox other than 100 messages at a time?
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I am attempting to delete the contents of a Gmail account that I created and began using in 2008.
I have already downloaded the entire mail file, and imported it into Thunderbird, so I won't lose anything relevant.
However, deleting the messages from Gmail is proving to be a challenge. You can select everything and "send it to the trash" but only 100 messages get dumped in at a time, and Gmail throws this unusual error message that seems to indicate they will continue doing this work in the background, but in 24 hours of doing this, none of the work appears to be getting done in the background. The message count remains the same.
So does anyone know how to actually trick Gmail into letting me completely empty this inbox other than 100 messages at a time?
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Searching for Drive in DuckDuckGo.
25x Google Drive sign-in
Microsoft OneDrive sign-in
14x Google Drive sign-in
A cloud storage ad
7x Google Drive sign-in
Microsoft OneDrive start page
12x Google Drive sign-in
Microsoft OneDrive account chooser
41x Google Drive sign-in
Driving games on CrazyPlay
10x GDSI
MS OneDrive product page
2x GDSI
Wikipedia page on Google Drive
Drive & Listen virtual travel
10x GDSI
Google Drive on Google Play Store
3x GDSI
MS OneDrive product page
