#enshittify — Public Fediverse posts

In its unwavering efforts to further #enshittify what remains of the free and open #internet, #google has kindly decided to bring back #AOL online! And this time you don't even need a #CDROM!

Those of you old enough to remember clueless relatives screaming for help to get on the *cough* "information superhighway" or even *shudder* Besenkammer-Boris' "Ich bin drin!" will be endlessly grateful.

For the youngsters, here's an illustration...

#fckgoogle #enshittification #slop #googleio2026

In its unwavering efforts to further #enshittify what remains of the free and open #internet, #google has kindly decided to bring back #AOL online! And this time you don't even need a #CDROM!

Those of you old enough to remember clueless relatives screaming for help to get on the *cough* "information superhighway" or even *shudder* Besenkammer-Boris' "Ich bin drin!" will be endlessly grateful.

For the youngsters, here's an illustration...

#fckgoogle #enshittification #slop #googleio2026

In its unwavering efforts to further #enshittify what remains of the free and open #internet, #google has kindly decided to bring back #AOL online! And this time you don't even need a #CDROM!

Those of you old enough to remember clueless relatives screaming for help to get on the *cough* "information superhighway" or even *shudder* Besenkammer-Boris' "Ich bin drin!" will be endlessly grateful.

For the youngsters, here's an illustration...

#fckgoogle #enshittification #slop #googleio2026

In its unwavering efforts to further #enshittify what remains of the free and open #internet, #google has kindly decided to bring back #AOL online! And this time you don't even need a #CDROM!

Those of you old enough to remember clueless relatives screaming for help to get on the *cough* "information superhighway" or even *shudder* Besenkammer-Boris' "Ich bin drin!" will be endlessly grateful.

For the youngsters, here's an illustration...

#fckgoogle #enshittification #slop #googleio2026

In its unwavering efforts to further #enshittify what remains of the free and open #internet, #google has kindly decided to bring back #AOL online! And this time you don't even need a #CDROM!

Those of you old enough to remember clueless relatives screaming for help to get on the *cough* "information superhighway" or even *shudder* Besenkammer-Boris' "Ich bin drin!" will be endlessly grateful.

For the youngsters, here's an illustration...

#fckgoogle #enshittification #slop #googleio2026

Ok, #enshittify as much as you want your #UI, #AppleMusic on #Tahoe, but could you still _please_ recognize the connected sound device without requiring zillion on/off clicks on sound icon sub-settings, and sometimes app restarts?

You. Have. One. Job.

#macos #music #woes

Ok, #enshittify as much as you want your #UI, #AppleMusic on #Tahoe, but could you still _please_ recognize the connected sound device without requiring zillion on/off clicks on sound icon sub-settings, and sometimes app restarts?

You. Have. One. Job.

#macos #music #woes

Don’t #enshittify where you eat. #IoT #Samsung #Fridge #ai #CoryDoctorow

Don’t #enshittify where you eat. #IoT #Samsung #Fridge #ai #CoryDoctorow

Don’t #enshittify where you eat. #IoT #Samsung #Fridge #ai #CoryDoctorow

Don’t #enshittify where you eat. #IoT #Samsung #Fridge #ai #CoryDoctorow

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

A great post by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) "The 40-year #economic mistake that let #Google conquer (and #enshittify) the world"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/#invest-dont-acquire

#enshittification #monopoly

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?

I dont have a printer, so I drew my own bit to add to my iNaturalist shirt Ive had for years to wear today to the q&a for a new Ambassador program.

We have been waiting three months for a q&a promised to use about adding GenAI to the site. Still not gotten that promised on, but got this invite to a q&a about becoming an ambassador.

Most users do not want genAI, in fact their blog announcement got so many comments they closed commenting. iNat staff have been obtuse and say they have no plans yet to share about the project so our promised q&a is pointless. But they want a working prototype by the end of the year.

We still do not have guarantee that it will be opt in only, we do not have any transparency for the project as to how it will scrape our data and be traceable, we showed how even using genAI for summarizing the comments about it attributed falsehoods to people who never said what the summary claimed, we showed how it hallucinated ID tips which is what they want to use it to generate…and now, openAI actually admits in their own paper that hallucinations are just a part of genAI, showing this will enshittify the most widely used community science platform.

If you got the invite for the meeting in 40 minutes (noon EST) I ask that you please hop on the meeting and ask these questions and push for them to drop this inane project.

In the end: How can we be an ambassador for GenAI with any good conscious?

@pluralistic still would love to see you do a writeup on this to publicize the issues. I am just a field biologist. I don’t have reach. I don’t have electronic expertise. You do. Most people don’t know this is even happening because it is being shoved under proverbial rugs.

#ai #google #genAI #enshittify #enshittification #iNat #iNaturalist #naturalist #nature

I dont have a printer, so I drew my own bit to add to my iNaturalist shirt Ive had for years to wear today to the q&a for a new Ambassador program.

We have been waiting three months for a q&a promised to use about adding GenAI to the site. Still not gotten that promised on, but got this invite to a q&a about becoming an ambassador.

Most users do not want genAI, in fact their blog announcement got so many comments they closed commenting. iNat staff have been obtuse and say they have no plans yet to share about the project so our promised q&a is pointless. But they want a working prototype by the end of the year.

We still do not have guarantee that it will be opt in only, we do not have any transparency for the project as to how it will scrape our data and be traceable, we showed how even using genAI for summarizing the comments about it attributed falsehoods to people who never said what the summary claimed, we showed how it hallucinated ID tips which is what they want to use it to generate…and now, openAI actually admits in their own paper that hallucinations are just a part of genAI, showing this will enshittify the most widely used community science platform.

If you got the invite for the meeting in 40 minutes (noon EST) I ask that you please hop on the meeting and ask these questions and push for them to drop this inane project.

In the end: How can we be an ambassador for GenAI with any good conscious?

@pluralistic still would love to see you do a writeup on this to publicize the issues. I am just a field biologist. I don’t have reach. I don’t have electronic expertise. You do. Most people don’t know this is even happening because it is being shoved under proverbial rugs.

#ai #google #genAI #enshittify #enshittification #iNat #iNaturalist #naturalist #nature

I dont have a printer, so I drew my own bit to add to my iNaturalist shirt Ive had for years to wear today to the q&a for a new Ambassador program.

We have been waiting three months for a q&a promised to use about adding GenAI to the site. Still not gotten that promised on, but got this invite to a q&a about becoming an ambassador.

Most users do not want genAI, in fact their blog announcement got so many comments they closed commenting. iNat staff have been obtuse and say they have no plans yet to share about the project so our promised q&a is pointless. But they want a working prototype by the end of the year.

We still do not have guarantee that it will be opt in only, we do not have any transparency for the project as to how it will scrape our data and be traceable, we showed how even using genAI for summarizing the comments about it attributed falsehoods to people who never said what the summary claimed, we showed how it hallucinated ID tips which is what they want to use it to generate…and now, openAI actually admits in their own paper that hallucinations are just a part of genAI, showing this will enshittify the most widely used community science platform.

If you got the invite for the meeting in 40 minutes (noon EST) I ask that you please hop on the meeting and ask these questions and push for them to drop this inane project.

In the end: How can we be an ambassador for GenAI with any good conscious?

@pluralistic still would love to see you do a writeup on this to publicize the issues. I am just a field biologist. I don’t have reach. I don’t have electronic expertise. You do. Most people don’t know this is even happening because it is being shoved under proverbial rugs.

#ai #google #genAI #enshittify #enshittification #iNat #iNaturalist #naturalist #nature

I dont have a printer, so I drew my own bit to add to my iNaturalist shirt Ive had for years to wear today to the q&a for a new Ambassador program.

We have been waiting three months for a q&a promised to use about adding GenAI to the site. Still not gotten that promised on, but got this invite to a q&a about becoming an ambassador.

Most users do not want genAI, in fact their blog announcement got so many comments they closed commenting. iNat staff have been obtuse and say they have no plans yet to share about the project so our promised q&a is pointless. But they want a working prototype by the end of the year.

We still do not have guarantee that it will be opt in only, we do not have any transparency for the project as to how it will scrape our data and be traceable, we showed how even using genAI for summarizing the comments about it attributed falsehoods to people who never said what the summary claimed, we showed how it hallucinated ID tips which is what they want to use it to generate…and now, openAI actually admits in their own paper that hallucinations are just a part of genAI, showing this will enshittify the most widely used community science platform.

If you got the invite for the meeting in 40 minutes (noon EST) I ask that you please hop on the meeting and ask these questions and push for them to drop this inane project.

In the end: How can we be an ambassador for GenAI with any good conscious?

@pluralistic still would love to see you do a writeup on this to publicize the issues. I am just a field biologist. I don’t have reach. I don’t have electronic expertise. You do. Most people don’t know this is even happening because it is being shoved under proverbial rugs.

#ai #google #genAI #enshittify #enshittification #iNat #iNaturalist #naturalist #nature

Of the four triggers that #ChatGPT says might cause the #AIBubble to collapse more quickly, "a key LLM vendor fails" seems by far the most plausible to me, but I guess we will see.

In terms of the aftermath, I think it is 100% correct about the consolidation. No one will make money on #LLMs until the majority of the competition is gone and the remaining companies have the near-monopoly they need to jack up prices and #enshittify their products.

Of the four triggers that #ChatGPT says might cause the #AIBubble to collapse more quickly, "a key LLM vendor fails" seems by far the most plausible to me, but I guess we will see.

In terms of the aftermath, I think it is 100% correct about the consolidation. No one will make money on #LLMs until the majority of the competition is gone and the remaining companies have the near-monopoly they need to jack up prices and #enshittify their products.

Of the four triggers that #ChatGPT says might cause the #AIBubble to collapse more quickly, "a key LLM vendor fails" seems by far the most plausible to me, but I guess we will see.

In terms of the aftermath, I think it is 100% correct about the consolidation. No one will make money on #LLMs until the majority of the competition is gone and the remaining companies have the near-monopoly they need to jack up prices and #enshittify their products.

Of the four triggers that #ChatGPT says might cause the #AIBubble to collapse more quickly, "a key LLM vendor fails" seems by far the most plausible to me, but I guess we will see.

In terms of the aftermath, I think it is 100% correct about the consolidation. No one will make money on #LLMs until the majority of the competition is gone and the remaining companies have the near-monopoly they need to jack up prices and #enshittify their products.

Of the four triggers that #ChatGPT says might cause the #AIBubble to collapse more quickly, "a key LLM vendor fails" seems by far the most plausible to me, but I guess we will see.

In terms of the aftermath, I think it is 100% correct about the consolidation. No one will make money on #LLMs until the majority of the competition is gone and the remaining companies have the near-monopoly they need to jack up prices and #enshittify their products.

When did Bugles #enshittify?
#shrinkflation

When did Bugles #enshittify?
#shrinkflation

Name something horrible, and Zuckerberg will find a way to #enshittify it.

"When prompting the AI, you can share and publish a post about your query. But if some of what's being shared is any indication, many aren't realizing that it makes their questions — about tax evasion, detailed information about legal troubles, or requests for a picture of pregnant big belly Mark Zuckerberg getting married to a bug — are being widely shared."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

Name something horrible, and Zuckerberg will find a way to #enshittify it.

"When prompting the AI, you can share and publish a post about your query. But if some of what's being shared is any indication, many aren't realizing that it makes their questions — about tax evasion, detailed information about legal troubles, or requests for a picture of pregnant big belly Mark Zuckerberg getting married to a bug — are being widely shared."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

Name something horrible, and Zuckerberg will find a way to #enshittify it.

"When prompting the AI, you can share and publish a post about your query. But if some of what's being shared is any indication, many aren't realizing that it makes their questions — about tax evasion, detailed information about legal troubles, or requests for a picture of pregnant big belly Mark Zuckerberg getting married to a bug — are being widely shared."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

Name something horrible, and Zuckerberg will find a way to #enshittify it.

"When prompting the AI, you can share and publish a post about your query. But if some of what's being shared is any indication, many aren't realizing that it makes their questions — about tax evasion, detailed information about legal troubles, or requests for a picture of pregnant big belly Mark Zuckerberg getting married to a bug — are being widely shared."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

@WrenArcher peak #enshittify amiright?

@WrenArcher peak #enshittify amiright?

@WrenArcher peak #enshittify amiright?

@WrenArcher peak #enshittify amiright?

@WrenArcher peak #enshittify amiright?

@Some_Emo_Chick the frustrating part for me on this is that a lot of it is shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. Deezer/Tidal are SSDD just 'not google’. The music industry is now a double edged scam, artists are being fleeced and listeners are being fleeced and Deezer/Tidal participate.

Same could be said for twitter -> bluesky. Sure bluesky is ok now, but it's owned by VC which will #enshittify soon.

@Some_Emo_Chick the frustrating part for me on this is that a lot of it is shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. Deezer/Tidal are SSDD just 'not google’. The music industry is now a double edged scam, artists are being fleeced and listeners are being fleeced and Deezer/Tidal participate.

Same could be said for twitter -> bluesky. Sure bluesky is ok now, but it's owned by VC which will #enshittify soon.

@Some_Emo_Chick the frustrating part for me on this is that a lot of it is shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. Deezer/Tidal are SSDD just 'not google’. The music industry is now a double edged scam, artists are being fleeced and listeners are being fleeced and Deezer/Tidal participate.

Same could be said for twitter -> bluesky. Sure bluesky is ok now, but it's owned by VC which will #enshittify soon.

@Some_Emo_Chick the frustrating part for me on this is that a lot of it is shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. Deezer/Tidal are SSDD just 'not google’. The music industry is now a double edged scam, artists are being fleeced and listeners are being fleeced and Deezer/Tidal participate.

Same could be said for twitter -> bluesky. Sure bluesky is ok now, but it's owned by VC which will #enshittify soon.

It's called Project 2025 because they couldn't spell #Enshittify

It's called Project 2025 because they couldn't spell #Enshittify

It's called Project 2025 because they couldn't spell #Enshittify

It's called Project 2025 because they couldn't spell #Enshittify

It's called Project 2025 because they couldn't spell #Enshittify