#platformdecay — Public Fediverse posts

Watch the Enshittificator

"Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide." >>
https://vimeo.com/1168468796
#Enshittification #PlatformDecay #crapification #platforms #degradation #BigTech #BusinessModel #SocialMedia #services #accountability #laws #transparency #TechnologyAssessment #TA #internet

Why does Facebook allow people to buy ads that impersonate Facebook?

On Facebook there will be an ad that is a picture that looks like Facebook's notifications but if you hover over it reveals it is going to a scam site.

Facebook gladly takes the ad money because they don't care if a user gets scammed.

I wonder how many actually fall for it. It must work because the scammers keep buying ads.

#Facebook #nuts #PlatformDecay

So Google has marked email that Google sent me as junk.

You would think Google's filter would say, "hey this is from us, it's not junk."

It was a Google Business Profile email, which I always get two copies. One on main account and one on back up account. This time one was marked as junk and one went to inbox.

I not complaining it just reminded me how a giant corp can't get the small things right.

#google #nuts #PlatformDecay

A fairly decent blogpost about, I guess, #platformDecay . Computers used to be our tools but now they just feel like tools of their manufacturers.

https://rldane.space/what-we-lost-along-the-way.html

#computers #powerUser

A worthy read on the frightening direction that supposed "copyright" law is taking us in.

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

#platformDecay #centralization

Pet peeve for today: #platformDecay of payment services, here's looking at you, #stripe #goCardless #payPal

All began as 'better' ways to do stuff but are now.. not so.

Stripe plugins advertise stripe accounts to payers, begging for personal data.

GoCardless: their orignial USP, a market-shaking fee structure and modern API is now as laughable as google's "don't be evil".

PayPal: well, just ... ugh. yuk. Can anyone even remember when it did something good?

#webDev