Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #enshittification, aggregated by home.social.
I think that the ongoing enshittification of the search experience on the web is an active campaign to normalize the use of LLMs for search.
This is a two-pronged approach:
I think I need a new internet, this one seems broken.
Pluralistic: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026)
👨💻 From Cory #Doctorow at @pluralistic:
“Today's links Adversarial interoperability is a team sport: Vibe-coded jailbreaks are fun, but don't solve the problem․ Hey look at this: Delights to delectate․ Object permanence: Labour Whip's pro-Iraq war threats; LoC…”
An AI-cloned free tool is being dubbed ‘the end of software’
It’s being called “the end of software” and the dawn of a new era of AI-powered piracy. New…
#NewsBeep #News #Business #ai-clonedsoftware #artcraft #AU #Australia #BrandonThomas #endofsoftware #enshittification #GitHub #pirvacy #REA #reverseengineeranything #softwarecloning #softwaremoats #theendofsoftware
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/936063/
Our new job: Noticing and fixing AI Generated Billing mistakes - A Biopost
Went to urgent care.
Was charged for emergency care.
Put in a complaint.
Is it just me or are others seeing this too?- I have to use Outlook for work and over the least year or more it's been getting worse. Eg searching for emails from a few months beck seems really hard. I keep being offered things from outside outlook and email. I used to be able to type a name and mostly one of the offers would be right whereas now only intranet folk show up unless I persist and even then ... it's like it can't consult previous emails.
I'm looking forward to not having to use it any more.
Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026)
👨💻 From Cory #Doctorow at @pluralistic:
“Today's links The death of history's most successful publisher: Google has a scorching case of 'main character syndrome․' Hey look at this: Delights to delectate․ Object permanence: Civil War x 4,400 ceramic cats; Okays…”
"The most prominent hosts of non-consensual, AI-generated imagery are supported by some of the biggest web infrastructure providers in the world"
The WordPress (.org) critiques aren't quite accurate.
by @404mediaco
attn: @digitallysovereign
https://www.404media.co/deepfake-abuse-sites-infrastructure-providers-study/
#Enshittification #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #HalfHeartedFanatic
OK #plex, you win. I wasn't going to upgrade because of your #enshittification but I can't get the family to switch to #jellyfin and the attacks are to numerous. Seeing the attempts in the logs forced my hand. (Conspiracy theory: they put the vuln in on purpose to get people to upgrade. Nah... they wouldn't do that!) But I swear this is the last time!
