#enshittified — Public Fediverse posts

I carnt abyd the distruchion of owr langwitch!

https://jacobin.com/2026/09/review-marriott-literacy-culture-screens

#fascism #language #grammar #politics #education #enshittified

@happilyretired23 If it hasn't happened or at least talked about already, I'm hoping that the #fediblock lists that server admins jointly update evolve into a realtime #firewall of sorts. API driven, protected from the "slopmongers" (<-- that is such an awesome name!).

I really hope we can respond quickly enough before our refuge gets #enshittified overnight.

On Hostile Suppliers

(a.k.a. this toot [could’ve | should’ve] been a blog post 🤪)
 
 
central thesis: in the current #enshittified timeline, every vendor is a hostile supplier & needs to be treated as such 😡
 
 
this applies to software vendors, sure, but also vendors of any physical product that includes a chip, firmware, or software [1] – which is increasingly almost all of them 😩

#Philips released v6.0.0 of their #iOS #Hue app on 2026-09-03. I have v5.73.0 installed on my primary device. as of today (2026-09-13), the latest release note that Philips have published for the iOS app is v5.70 from 2026-06-23 [2]

I expect that v6.0.0 is likely to have breaking changes, both because of the version number & because Philips (like pretty-much every commercial vendor these days) has a history of breaking or removing useful functions from their “smart” products

and despite the fact that there’s a toggle in the app for “automatic software updates” for the bridge & connected devices (a mix of firmware for the “smart” devices and software & firmware for the bridge) that theoretically lets you choose when (and whether) to update them, they also periodically force you to update all devices by holding your app hostage, preventing you from doing any actions in the app until you apply the firmware and / or software updates (like, you can’t change the brightness of a light until you’ve completed the hostage exchange)
 
 
I’ve long since moved to using #HomeAssistant as my primary UI for controlling our lights, including moving replacing all the automations I initially set up in the Hue app to HA – both because I want to minimise the impact when Hue inevitably removes or modifies features, but also because the Hue bridge (or app, or both) regularly craps itself when attempting to execute actions even though it still seems to be able to execute those actions when triggered via the API by HA ¯⧹(ツ)⧸¯

this is super normal & fine [3]

I’m working towards replacing the Hue bridge with a different Zigbee controller, but my spoons are finite & I really shouldn’t need to be the sysadmin of my own whole-arse tech stack to defend myself against the vendors who I’ve thrown a significant amount of dollarydoos at 😩 [4]
 
 
so yeah. every vendor is a hostile supplier & needs to be treated as such 😡
 
 
 
 1 i.e. “cyber-physical systems”

as Bruce Schneier describes them:

“Everything is becoming vulnerable [...] because everything is becoming a computer. More specifically, a computer on the Internet.”
…
“Your oven is a computer that makes things hot. Your refrigerator is a computer that keeps things cold. Your camera is a computer with a lens and a shutter. An ATM is a computer with money inside. And modern light bulbs are computers that shine brightly when someone—or some other computer—flips a power switch.”

(Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World, 2018)

 2 https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/support/release-notes/ios

 3 this is, in fact, not fine 😕

 4 I am taking neither recommendations for alternatives nor commentary on my technology choices at this time 🙅‍♀️

Mental substitution game.

Whenever you read or hear about #enshittified #platforms, change "platform" or "Amazon" or "facebook", or "Uber" or whatever to "parasitic middleman."

It's fun. I recommend it.

#BigTech is killing it, and not in a good way 😮‍💨 Everything gets #enshittified, the #InternetArchive is sometimes working and sometimes not, #Google tries to silofy everything… #AgeID nonsense, biometric #CAPTCHAs 🤢🤮 … attempts to ban #VPNs, #E2E, and groups that provide tools and services against oppression… 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 #jeez #fckbigwhack

Did someone recently buy couchsurfing.com and is desperately trying to make money off it? I'm suddenly getting flooded with ads to subscribe in my email.

Can an effectively dead service get #Enshittified ?

#CouchSurfing

Byebye #Vivino, it was fun while it lasted.

Hope you didn’t make your GDPR-workflow too expensive internally…

#enshittified

@dbattistella
OMG - terrifying! 🙀 Now why would Carney do that? “A reminder that Mark Carney eliminated the national ‘Weatheradio’ service. The network of 200+ stations provided 24-hour current conditions, forecasts, and evacuation warnings, on a continuous loop.” 🙀
Radio becomes more & more a solid service 🎗️, a potentially lifesaving solid service, when all others become enshittified & no longer fit-for-purpose (if they ever were).

#Canada #Ontario #enshittified #weatheradio #wildfires #FordFires

@billyjoebowers Just like republiKKKans to keep a human being on life support to prevent representation.

PS even autocorrect is #enshittified

Regardless of where you stand in the #FIFA controversy, there is no denying that a sport with a reputation for fairness is now no different than any other #enshittified enterprise and we are all of us poorer for it. It feels bad.😞

Speaking of the fridge, this is the one where I already had to 3D print some fixes. Now the door shelf is coming apart as it's made of that crappy plastic that has integrity of a rotten egg shell. Looks like I need to hack that aswell. #enshittified

@mfurlan I'm sure @lowqualityfacts gets an affiliate fee for sending people to this #enshittified website

Lawmakers should protect real people from harm—not focus on age restrictions; instead, strengthening a non-algorithmically-driven, non #enshittified Social Web would really help—interoperability should be mandatory for BigTech platforms. The #SocialWeb, aka #fediverse #mastodon by humans for humans.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gdqumykkptobwxvtvg352i5b/post/3mnpeya7z42m2

@privacyint @Privacymatters @beyondmachines1 #developerverification #govtid #privacymatters #enshittified
Image was shared by someone else.
I do recall this was being implemented around January or so.
#amazon #developerconsole

People complaining about #Google (Search, Maps, Mail, Chrome, Android) and #Windows and any other big tech #enshittified service:
Useful and feature-complete alternatives exist in abundance. No need to keep using shit and complain about it being shitty.

There was a time I worked on wordpress sites regularly. I used the Kadence theme and subscribed since 2018 to the Kadence full bundle that later got grandfathered but still available for current subscriptions. I still use it for 3 sites. I need to renew soon and found out today kadence was borged and #enshittified by liquidweb. It seems that my license option will remain but we know happened with Google G suite.
Here is a good writeup https://diydreamsite.com/kadence-liquidweb-rebrand/
Do I rebuild 3 sites before July?🤔

There are too many digital unliterate that were engulfed with the #enshittified internet and with it took for granted that #bigtech would just demand from you whatever it could get their greedy hands on.
It was normal to have total souverenity about your data, your privacy!, and you would grant, bit by bit, permission. It was normal to be anonymous, because, it is the world watching you, potentially.

Guys, can we please take back souverenity about our data?! #unplugtrump #unplugbigtech

@Doomstrike @NudelnAlDente
I’m at the edge of my tolerance for YouTube too, now. It’s definitely getting more and more #enshittified

I need help (first-world problem)! I want a robot lawn mower. I’ve read articles. They aren’t clear about one thing:

Does every robot lawn mower require a network connection to the company’s servers?

I would prefer to buy one that can’t be #Enshittified if the company goes under or just decides to “stop supporting” the equipment. Otherwise I’m just renting the equipment at their pleasure.

Thank you!!

#robot #robotlawnmower #lawnmower #enshittification

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116279936724387192

#enshittified

@jwz Given the ridiculously stupid things happening in the world now, I had this sinking feeling that it would be for real. But after reading FloofyWolf's full post, I'm fairly certain it is satirical.

(See https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00018.html )

For me #Linux is the last bastion of computing freedom, now that MS and Apple appear to have become largely just #enshittified marketing/surveillance/fee-charging engines. I can certainly imagine a future where Linux (of all flavors) is under all-out assault from the tech-bros.

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116257411374685567

Eventually, #Bluesky will run out of venture capital (since it continues to burn money) and then it will either go out of business or (more likely) become #enshittified.

I've been seeing a lot of videos and blog posts about the resurgence of #piracy in response to #enshittification . A common note is that its a _service_ problem, not a _product_ problem which is correct.

A company that has known this from the get-go and has never #enshittified is #Beatport - they're like iTunes but specifically for #EDM (sorry #bonkwave #genrepolice) I bought my first #DRM -free #mp3 tracks from Beatport in 2004 and (with some exceptions) I can _still download them today_.

@freyablekman @Thcoudreau @johncarlosbaez @pluralistic It's surely the case that scholars need to be vocal.

However, it's also related to what the kids call #terminal #capitalism; There's only so many hills you can die on *within* faculty.

If the society at large decides* there is no money for #arXiv, then arXiv will go the way of all #enshittified platforms.

* And it should be obvious that the high-level decision-making process should be questioned, not [only] scholars fighting for #budget.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat

Dear Austin,

You ever tried making a modern-day built-this-century fridge last even half that long? This market got #enshittified years ago.

The Real World.

Well, this is forking intolerable.

#Firefox is officially #enshittified.

It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.

Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.

Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.

I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.

#enshittification #e14n

Honest #tech question, Google search is #enshittified:

Why does Windows still have 260-character file path limits? Is it an artifact from previous versions due to hardware limitations at the time? Backwards compatibility bs?
#AskFedi #technology #windows

Stumbled across this. Looks like #libraries are getting the squeeze from #enshittified eBook publishers who license their "IP" instead of selling single copies. Why am I not surprised?

"A typical license for a digital book costs libraries $55 for a 2-year
license, limited to checkout by a single user. This purchase price
significantly exceeds the average consumer price of $13 for an
eBook and $27 on average for the physical book, according to
Readers First."

https://www.urbanlibraries.org/files/E-Book-pricing-2.pdf

@martynpie @vitriolix @djlink

Yeah, along with VLC its one of the few apps that hasn't #enshittified .