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harryhaller@diasp.eu
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Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.

This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.

It's RSS.

#shit #shitty #enshittification #rss #cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #rss-reader

QuiteRSS is a open-source cross-platform RSS/Atom news feeds reader written on Qt/C++
Idea: Quite fast and comfortable to user
Links:
Website: https://quiterss.org
Git repository: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss
Issue tracker: https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues
Translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/quiterss/

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.\
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This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.\
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It's RSS.

#shit #shitty #enshittification #rss #cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #rss-reader

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Clara Listensprechen Voted 4 Harris

Friends don't let friends buy any HP product.

♲ Dr. Brad Rosenheim - 2024-10-03 21:14:30 GMT

My wife is on the phone with HP and looks exasperated. We had a working printer that, in my opinion, was surveiling us too much. It knew when our ink cartridges were almost empty and had our credit card number so it could send us new cartridges when we needed them. My wife loved that because ink cartridges always go dry right when you need them, and it was getting more difficult to find the proper cartridges. Yes, the printer knew if we installed third party cartridges.But, the credit card on file just passed the expiration date, and the printer magically stopped working. That is why she is calling. And, of course, they are telling us it is obsolete and we should big a new one with even MORE surveillance! That, folks, is #enshittification

#HP
#printers
#SubscriptionHardware
#RentSeekers

Dr. Brad Rosenheim (@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social)

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

"Disenshittify or Die"

Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/#how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess

What the fuck happened to the old, good internet?\
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I mean, sure, our bosses were a little surveillance-happy, and they were usually up for sharing their data with the NSA, and whenever there was a tossup between user security and growth, it was always YOLO time.\
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But Google Search used to work. Facebook used to show you posts from people you followed. Uber used to be cheaper than a taxi and pay the driver more than a cabbie made. Amazon used to sell products, not Shein-grade self-destructing dropshipped garbage from all-consonant brands. Apple used to defend your privacy, rather than spying on you with your no-modifications-allowed Iphone.\
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There was a time when you searching for an album on Spotify would get you that album – not a playlist of insipid AI-generated covers with the same name and art.\
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Microsoft used to sell you software – sure, it was buggy – but now they just let you access apps in the cloud, so they can watch how you use those apps and strip the features you use the most out of the basic tier and turn them into an upcharge.\
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What – and I cannot stress this enough – the fuck happened?!\
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I’m talking about enshittification.

#doctorow #cory #cory-doctorow #enshittification #disenshittify #internet #web #amazon #google #microsoft #facebook #apple

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112465274302648993 weirdwriter@tweesecake.social - Ugh! So #Libby is selling our data, not shocking after they were acquired... but there are alternatives that are below that public libraries can use! I personally recommend libraries use the Palace Project because of their #Accessibility focused design but links are below!

For the Libby #Enshittification background, read https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

Part 2 https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/a-novel-a-wedding-and-some-heavy-petting/

For the targeted ad investigation, read https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/

One of them is Library Simplified https://librarysimplified.org/get-started/

The Palace Project looks awesome and is fully accessible, screen reader wise! Librarians should check out https://thepalaceproject.org/platform/

#Library #Privacy #Librarian #LibbyApp

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christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com
Christoph S

2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.

#enshittification

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

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diane_a@diasp.org
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒

Sep 14, 2023
"The #enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. It doesn't have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four" (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users - reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures - leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification. We don't have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking - through privacy laws and other protections - and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!"

Transcript available

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

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diane_a@diasp.org
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Enshittification is when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts. The term was theorized by Canadian writer and thinker Cory Doctorow to describe the trajectory of platforms like TikTok, Amazon and Twitter. He argued that platforms start out serving users by offering features that lure them in, then they serve advertisers and third parties by offering ad targeting and deals, and lastly they serve themselves and their shareholders by cheating and exploiting both advertisers and users. Doctorow calls this process #enshittification.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification

Enshittification

Enshittification is when an online platform becomes more monetized and less user-oriented the longer it lasts. The term was theorized by Canadian writer and thinker Cory Doctorow to describe the trajectory of platforms like TikTok, Amazon and...

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hankg@friendica.myportal.social
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What if this is just the late stage capitalism vulture capitalists just eating themselves. Consumers hate it and will seek places that don't have such shitty signal to noise ratio. Those could be places like the fediverse that aren't incentivized in the same way. It's not a question of ludditism. It's the equivalent of mid-20th century food product vomit that tried to convince us to eat everything with these shitty "time saving" products when we wanted real food. It didn't sink big agribusiness, unfortunately, but they had to get back to the basics. It'd be a wonderful thing in this case it sinks them with their shitty products too. #AI #enshittification #VultureCapitalism #LateStagCapitalism #fediverse
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web

AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.

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