#enshittification — Public Fediverse posts

Do y'all remember when the internet used to be made up of blogs? When people had the attention span and the space in their day to just read things? The internet used to still feel magical enough that people would just spend time in their day, clicking around to various websites and reading the blogs and articles produced by everyday, regular people.

Not highly refined content made by people who turned the internet into their jobs. Just regular people, spitting out writing that had typos and was basically just okay. But for all the professional things that it *wasn't*, the one thing that it *was* is human. It was human. It wasn't corporate or professional. It wasn't designed like TV, to fill a void in your heart.

It was just something really interesting, and you could nourish your brain with.

I wasn't involved in the blog scene when it was really happening, I was too young, but I've witnessed those sites since then, the ones that are still around. I really think it would be cool if we could find a way to return to that kind of culture. Reading things, interacting, referencing the websites of other individuals. I want that indie culture of the internet back. Why is everyone I follow some giant celebrity who does content creation as their full-time job? Where's the authentic humanity in that?

If you run a blog, or know any good blogs that you follow, feel free to link them below. Specifically ones run by individuals that aren't some marketing funnel for a side gig.

#blog #enshittification #attentionSpan #newGoodInternet #indieWeb

Do y'all remember when the internet used to be made up of blogs? When people had the attention span and the space in their day to just read things? The internet used to still feel magical enough that people would just spend time in their day, clicking around to various websites and reading the blogs and articles produced by everyday, regular people.

Not highly refined content made by people who turned the internet into their jobs. Just regular people, spitting out writing that had typos and was basically just okay. But for all the professional things that it *wasn't*, the one thing that it *was* is human. It was human. It wasn't corporate or professional. It wasn't designed like TV, to fill a void in your heart.

It was just something really interesting, and you could nourish your brain with.

I wasn't involved in the blog scene when it was really happening, I was too young, but I've witnessed those sites since then, the ones that are still around. I really think it would be cool if we could find a way to return to that kind of culture. Reading things, interacting, referencing the websites of other individuals. I want that indie culture of the internet back. Why is everyone I follow some giant celebrity who does content creation as their full-time job? Where's the authentic humanity in that?

If you run a blog, or know any good blogs that you follow, feel free to link them below. Specifically ones run by individuals that aren't some marketing funnel for a side gig.

#blog #enshittification #attentionSpan #newGoodInternet #indieWeb

Here we go again…
Today I tried to send a friend a recommendation for a Best Western hotel. Instead of a simple URL, I was offered a massive long reference including goodness knows what additional tracking and personal info. Worse, pasting it into Mail, iOS instantly hid all that detail behind a helpful snapshot of what the web address was pointing at. Being cantankerous, I pasted it via a text editor, allowing me to delete the crap, but how many others would have bothered?
#Enshittification.

Here we go again…
Today I tried to send a friend a recommendation for a Best Western hotel. Instead of a simple URL, I was offered a massive long reference including goodness knows what additional tracking and personal info. Worse, pasting it into Mail, iOS instantly hid all that detail behind a helpful snapshot of what the web address was pointing at. Being cantankerous, I pasted it via a text editor, allowing me to delete the crap, but how many others would have bothered?
#Enshittification.

While there, I finally picked up #enshittification by @pluralistic #books

While there, I finally picked up #enshittification by @pluralistic #books

Amazon.

Trying to re-read an ebook I purchased in 2010. Doesn’t work. Title seems gone on Amazon itself.

Forced to use Amazon chat.

Rep 1: Tests, spends time. “Okay, you can purchase another edition of this” (so that I can keep old highlights and notes).

Connection interrupted.

Rep 2: Let’s go through everything again. No, only refund.

Hangs up.

Rep 3: You never paid for this title.

(I: “What? Since when is Amazon a charity and lets me read and keep a book I didn’t pay?”)

Sudden connection loss.

Rep 4: Everything again, then forces an Amazon call on me, which kills the chat.

Rep 5: You are so important to us. … No worries we will fix it.

Goes.

No solution. Can’t access the title or notes.

I’m not sure how I move 1,538 ebooks out of Kindle—seem locked in—and am just glad I’ve started moving on, but it’s time to leave Amazon for good.

Never got a clearer signal that neither do we own Amazon ebook purchases nor that Amazon would “care.”

#amazon #kindle #enshittification

Amazon.

Trying to re-read an ebook I purchased in 2010. Doesn’t work. Title seems gone on Amazon itself.

Forced to use Amazon chat.

Rep 1: Tests, spends time. “Okay, you can purchase another edition of this” (so that I can keep old highlights and notes).

Connection interrupted.

Rep 2: Let’s go through everything again. No, only refund.

Hangs up.

Rep 3: You never paid for this title.

(I: “What? Since when is Amazon a charity and lets me read and keep a book I didn’t pay?”)

Sudden connection loss.

Rep 4: Everything again, then forces an Amazon call on me, which kills the chat.

Rep 5: You are so important to us. … No worries we will fix it.

Goes.

No solution. Can’t access the title or notes.

I’m not sure how I move 1,538 ebooks out of Kindle—seem locked in—and am just glad I’ve started moving on, but it’s time to leave Amazon for good.

Never got a clearer signal that neither do we own Amazon ebook purchases nor that Amazon would “care.”

#amazon #kindle #enshittification

Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window

#Amazon #AI #datacenters #enshittification #dystopia #technology #community

Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window

#Amazon #AI #datacenters #enshittification #dystopia #technology #community

RE: https://ieji.de/@oraculix/110703033324746842

This has changed considerably in 2026: Simplified, there's a "Cloud MOS" and an "On-Prem MOS" now, effectively denying access to much of the knowledge base and the MOS Community to #Oracle Cloud-only customers.

As a side effect, the "new MOS" has gone FUBAR, but has a shiny new chatbot awaiting you. Yay!
#enshittification

"WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones."

So let me get this straight… AI advances climate change with data centers, to predict the consequences of climate change. 🙃

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #google #DeepMind

"WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones."

So let me get this straight… AI advances climate change with data centers, to predict the consequences of climate change. 🙃

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #google #DeepMind

Everything contains puffed rice now. 99% filler.

#enshittification

So yeah even the most basic of iPhone shortcuts will fail on you. What a trash phone 🚮

#Apple #enshittification #iPhone

So yeah even the most basic of iPhone shortcuts will fail on you. What a trash phone 🚮

#Apple #enshittification #iPhone

it seems game publishers really want to set up their own cartels - similarly to DRAM companies - but in cloud gaming.

'The "advent of streaming," Zelnick said, is something that Take-Two believes is "right around the corner, in terms of having something that's low latency and really works well for consumers. Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines."' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/take-two-ceo-says-he-expects-the-games-industry-to-be-in-commercial-streaming-mode-within-3-years-which-is-great-news-if-you-hate-owning-things/

#Gaming #Videogames #Tech #Technology #Ownership #StopKillingGames #SKG #Enshittification

it seems game publishers really want to set up their own cartels - similarly to DRAM companies - but in cloud gaming.

'The "advent of streaming," Zelnick said, is something that Take-Two believes is "right around the corner, in terms of having something that's low latency and really works well for consumers. Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines."' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/take-two-ceo-says-he-expects-the-games-industry-to-be-in-commercial-streaming-mode-within-3-years-which-is-great-news-if-you-hate-owning-things/

#Gaming #Videogames #Tech #Technology #Ownership #StopKillingGames #SKG #Enshittification

[P] I suspect you've seen the news of a world first where genAI successfully created nww biological viruses? The scholars I've been reading had the same worries I do. Sleazy hiverarchians will apply this to their dumb, dumb, dumb tribal wars, and they'll be too moronic to grasp that life mutates. "Unga bunga! But me majik! Me speshul! Me am god-chosen! Me can contowl it!" No, you soporific imbecile, you cannot.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #enshittification #science #dumb #dumb #dumb

[P] I suspect you've seen the news of a world first where genAI successfully created nww biological viruses? The scholars I've been reading had the same worries I do. Sleazy hiverarchians will apply this to their dumb, dumb, dumb tribal wars, and they'll be too moronic to grasp that life mutates. "Unga bunga! But me majik! Me speshul! Me am god-chosen! Me can contowl it!" No, you soporific imbecile, you cannot.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #enshittification #science #dumb #dumb #dumb

Alright, I updated my phone to Android 17. I'm scared, but from what I could read the total Gemini invasion is only for Pixel 10 and/or for the idiots who pay to get the full Gemini.

#Android #enshittification #NoAI

Alright, I updated my phone to Android 17. I'm scared, but from what I could read the total Gemini invasion is only for Pixel 10 and/or for the idiots who pay to get the full Gemini.

#Android #enshittification #NoAI

A true masterpiece of #enshittification : setting the alarm on my iPhone 16e apparently requires the “Health” app. Makes me wonder how we came to this point.

@pluralistic just making sure you see this - in case you need some illustration around #enshittification and #ai during your tour :D @designthinkingcomic

@pluralistic just making sure you see this - in case you need some illustration around #enshittification and #ai during your tour :D @designthinkingcomic

Such a sad mess. 😔 I don’t see myself buying any new computer gear in the foreseeable future…

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out

#tech #BigTech #technology #RAM #enshittification

Such a sad mess. 😔 I don’t see myself buying any new computer gear in the foreseeable future…

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out

#tech #BigTech #technology #RAM #enshittification

Streamingdiensten met advertenties 😬

Er komt ooit een moment dat ik houtbewerker ga worden 🪚

Deze twee zaken hebben niks met elkaar te maken en gelijktijdig meer dan gedacht 😅

#enshittification

Streamingdiensten met advertenties 😬

Er komt ooit een moment dat ik houtbewerker ga worden 🪚

Deze twee zaken hebben niks met elkaar te maken en gelijktijdig meer dan gedacht 😅

#enshittification

@sahil they will offer it at discounted rate after this and then completely remove it. #enshittification

@sahil they will offer it at discounted rate after this and then completely remove it. #enshittification

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117055187341619352

OK, in this age of ‘AI’, Illustrator has definitely got stupider.

I just made a series of 6 PDFs from discrete layers and then combined them in Acrobat into a single file.

In each case, I hid all the other layers so that only the active layer should influence the output, but the net result was a 27 MB file, despite sensible image compression settings.

When I split the layers into separate files and went through the same process, I got what I expected, a 3.7 MB file

#enshittification

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117055187341619352

OK, in this age of ‘AI’, Illustrator has definitely got stupider.

I just made a series of 6 PDFs from discrete layers and then combined them in Acrobat into a single file.

In each case, I hid all the other layers so that only the active layer should influence the output, but the net result was a 27 MB file, despite sensible image compression settings.

When I split the layers into separate files and went through the same process, I got what I expected, a 3.7 MB file

#enshittification

This is a shared account, so our #introduction also kind of covers why. Do not expect flow or continuity: it is hard enough to agree on what it is exactly that defines us both simultaneously instead of apart from each other.

We both come from dysfunctional working class families from #Spain, i.e. carry the generational trauma of a fascist regime whose narrative and power structures linger to this very day. Class divide is a knife that can cut any relationship apart, and resentment is the pervasive commonplace when victims and executioners have had unclear roles for almost a century. Family is a meaningless word if you have never experienced safety or love from it.

For years, we reached for each other in search of solace, to escape from our symbolic orphanages. It felt that deep from the very start, even though we had intervals where we only interacted to share self-deprecating memes. We moved together almost ten years ago, but met on #MySpace a dozen years before that. Being able to stay in touch with each other was our main motivation to use social networking sites during that time.

So we gradually stopped using them over the last decade, a process that was also stimulated by #enshittification. But we've been hoping to get back what we enjoyed from those platforms. And so far we've benefitted more from boundaries around us than between us, as we have always longed for a sense of community and the secure atmosphere that comes with it. So here we are. Together.

So yeah, being singled-out is one of those things we would like to skip over, but the Fedi is about people, so you can try from the following:

• Al holds the poise (and the knees) of a #OldArseSkateboarder :verified: that has spun vinyl on enough parties to turn down any plan that requires going to bed after midnight. Interested in:
  #CrateDigging #Movies #ComicBooks

• Al is #AuDHD :verified: enough to fail at any attempt to be warm but also set an uninteresting convo on fire with a single word. Despises tech so thoroughly to collect formal #ComputerScience academic cred. Interested in:
  #AnalogPhotography #Books #Homelab

• Cosmo is a #BritishShorthair :verified: with no pedigree but all the phlegm. Probably wondering why we're not feeding him rn. Interested in:
  #CatFood #CatNaps #Lettuce

This is a shared account, so our #introduction also kind of covers why. Do not expect flow or continuity: it is hard enough to agree on what it is exactly that defines us both simultaneously instead of apart from each other.

We both come from dysfunctional working class families from #Spain, i.e. carry the generational trauma of a fascist regime whose narrative and power structures linger to this very day. Class divide is a knife that can cut any relationship apart, and resentment is the pervasive commonplace when victims and executioners have had unclear roles for almost a century. Family is a meaningless word if you have never experienced safety or love from it.

For years, we reached for each other in search of solace, to escape from our symbolic orphanages. It felt that deep from the very start, even though we had intervals where we only interacted to share self-deprecating memes. We moved together almost ten years ago, but met on #MySpace a dozen years before that. Being able to stay in touch with each other was our main motivation to use social networking sites during that time.

So we gradually stopped using them over the last decade, a process that was also stimulated by #enshittification. But we've been hoping to get back what we enjoyed from those platforms. And so far we've benefitted more from boundaries around us than between us, as we have always longed for a sense of community and the secure atmosphere that comes with it. So here we are. Together.

So yeah, being singled-out is one of those things we would like to skip over, but the Fedi is about people, so you can try from the following:

• Al holds the poise (and the knees) of a #OldArseSkateboarder :verified: that has spun vinyl on enough parties to turn down any plan that requires going to bed after midnight. Interested in:
  #CrateDigging #Movies #ComicBooks

• Al is #AuDHD :verified: enough to fail at any attempt to be warm but also set an uninteresting convo on fire with a single word. Despises tech so thoroughly to collect formal #ComputerScience academic cred. Interested in:
  #AnalogPhotography #Books #Homelab

• Cosmo is a #BritishShorthair :verified: with no pedigree but all the phlegm. Probably wondering why we're not feeding him rn. Interested in:
  #CatFood #CatNaps #Lettuce

@Tim_Eagon It’s a serious problem. Although I quite like Bluesky, I can’t shake the feeling that the platform could be bought out or monetized by a handful of investors, who usually have malicious intentions (after all, capitalism). The rest, well, we already know the rest. Enshittification.

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #enshittification

@Tim_Eagon It’s a serious problem. Although I quite like Bluesky, I can’t shake the feeling that the platform could be bought out or monetized by a handful of investors, who usually have malicious intentions (after all, capitalism). The rest, well, we already know the rest. Enshittification.

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #enshittification

RE: https://social.gamefan.net/@gamewire/117054175765958660

I never for a second believed they would back down from their decision, even with the community backlash. Enshittification, that’s the name of it.

#videogames #sony #playstation #enshittification

RE: https://social.gamefan.net/@gamewire/117054175765958660

I never for a second believed they would back down from their decision, even with the community backlash. Enshittification, that’s the name of it.

#videogames #sony #playstation #enshittification

#AI copywriting skills are based primarily on the petabytes of prior bad copy that was written by people who got paid by volume, not value - by "content farms."

Now we have a web full of filler content that vaguely resembles something useful or interesting, designed to increase engagement or watchtime, while simultaneously being less useful.

Don't blame people for poor attention spans. Blame the modern web for its tsunami of shitty content. #enshittification

Ain't nobody got time for that.

#AI copywriting skills are based primarily on the petabytes of prior bad copy that was written by people who got paid by volume, not value - by "content farms."

Now we have a web full of filler content that vaguely resembles something useful or interesting, designed to increase engagement or watchtime, while simultaneously being less useful.

Don't blame people for poor attention spans. Blame the modern web for its tsunami of shitty content. #enshittification

Ain't nobody got time for that.

Code #enshittification?

Recent research and data analyzing millions of code changes indicate that AI-driven development has led to an 81% increase in code duplication and a 35% drop in code reuse. Furthermore, an analysis of 20,574 real-world agent sessions shows that humans had to manually correct AI misalignments in 91% of those sessions (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29442)

#coding #software #programming #ai #agents #opensource #vibecoding

Code #enshittification?

Recent research and data analyzing millions of code changes indicate that AI-driven development has led to an 81% increase in code duplication and a 35% drop in code reuse. Furthermore, an analysis of 20,574 real-world agent sessions shows that humans had to manually correct AI misalignments in 91% of those sessions (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29442)

#coding #software #programming #ai #agents #opensource #vibecoding

RE: https://mastodon.social/@designthinkingcomic/117053287353994485

#enshittification as it happens

RE: https://mastodon.social/@designthinkingcomic/117053287353994485

#enshittification as it happens

@joana_schulz Manchmal ist es nur das Ungewohnte, das stört (und das vergeht, weil es mit der Zeit gewohnter wird).
Es ist aber im Fediverse auch nicht alles ausgereift, dafür kann jeder direkt mitgestalten.

Für mich das Wichtigste: Keine Gefahr von #Enshittification !

#althier #neuhier #langhier #fediverse

@joana_schulz Manchmal ist es nur das Ungewohnte, das stört (und das vergeht, weil es mit der Zeit gewohnter wird).
Es ist aber im Fediverse auch nicht alles ausgereift, dafür kann jeder direkt mitgestalten.

Für mich das Wichtigste: Keine Gefahr von #Enshittification !

#althier #neuhier #langhier #fediverse

@ambientspace #enshittification has reached RNZ?