#ensittification — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ensittification, aggregated by home.social.
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Enshittification – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow writes about how the Internet changed from an exiting and adventurous place to be, to an extractive machine made to make a small group of people and companies richer and us users less free on the internet. He argues that the change is a process that follows a set three stage process: Make it really good for users to lock them in. Make it really good for companies by dialing back some of the user value. Once everyone are locked in and dependent they move to the extracting faze […] -
@DirkGutlin @spujb @brembs @neuralreckoning Imo that's not the feature. It's more like Mastodon doesn't assume what you want. No one's making a decision about what should be on your feed.
Absolutely is a double-edge sword. Agree w/ most of Dirk's points, but I maintain as a baseline this might be more desirable if the tradeoff is #ensittification, consolidation of power, erosion of democracy, etc. given incentives of VC-led apps.
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#ensittification is the word of the day. I don't like it as it isn't transparent in meaning. It refers to the decay of a digital platform over time as supposedly free platform services strive for profit. You'll see more adverts, fees for more than a very basic service, tracking cookies to feed adverts at you, and the sqeezing of money from far less powerful providers, e.g. small traders. So #PlatformDecay is the better term.
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CW: Enshitification of public service - French trains
They had the data on number of people using the train and time it takes to cross the train station (it’s integrated into SBB app).
They have the traffic data - if just with Google.
They had previous substitution data - it’s one of the most routine substitutions in rail, both light and heavy.
And yet someone higher up either signed off on this option, or made sure to give only enough for a single bus.