@timbray@cosocial.caYou know, “this” used to be a perfectly innocent word. Nothing special, but a solid citizen of the grammar ecosystem. Who could have predicted it would turn into a major clickbait villain, meaning “We’re not going to tell you what this article is about until you click on it.”
FWIW I think I’m not alone in consciously avoiding clicking on such links.
#enshittification
@tezoatlipoca@mas.took I'd just like to shout out to the #Thunderbird team - no matter what/what else #mozilla seems to #enshittification , so far TB is intact. #outlook
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Gotta say, “earnings inflection strategy” as a term for squeezing your customers — basically, #enshittification — is a euphemism to be savoured" – Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.…
@makeratschool@kanoa.deDa ich wenig Touren mit Fahrrad oder zu Fuß unternehme, ist Komoot und Strava für mich kein Thema. Aber ich habe mitbekommen, dass es da wohl zu einem Verkauf mit folgender Enshittification kam / kommen wird. Und tatsächlich bietet das Fediverse eine Alternative (soweit ich das beurteilen kann): Wanderer https://wanderer.to/welcome
@nohillside@smnn.chThe General Theory of #Enshittification https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification
@nohillside@smnn.chApple‘s #Enshittification Journey continues …
More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/26/f1-wallet-gag-zeins…
@dsc@mastodon.scotToot toot! #spotify #enshittification
Spotify signals further price rises as it rolls out new services - https://on.ft.com/46cGWWD
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toAh, the smell of #desperation / #enshittification - one washed up shit-i-fied social media platform (#Reddit) begging for users/advertisers/relevance on _another_ shit-i-fied social media platform (
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialThe Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/
@cdarwin@c.imUnder Trump 2.0,
US statecraft is starting to mimic
the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAnother bullet dodged accidentally…
In this case, the real reason I didn’t recommend 1P for my employer was that I had experienced their enshittification process as an individual user and wasn’t sure how far they might go with a corporate customer.
(I also saw no need for an “enterprise” solution for us at that point and that turned out right.)
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBig drama over Discord warning a no-code platform called BotGhost that it will be kicked off unless it finds a new way to operate, due to a security vulnerability that has now been fixed.
https://update.botghost.com/#tldr-what-s-happening-with-botghost-and-discord…
@compfu@mograph.socialThis video is about #enshittification of media corporations - Warner in particular - without mentioning the term. The #CoyoteVsAcme movie is mentioned as an example but ultimately that youtuber is mad that the "TCM Wine Club", a deal where they sent a box of wine bottles and re…
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.socialEnshittification: the mechanism by which a company starts to hook you up and then sucks every resource out of you. It's a fascinating concept explored in depth in this insightful post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@gevoel@mastodon.greenThe Climate Historian: The Age of Enshittification — and Its Political Parallels
https://archive.ph/ifyyH
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialEnshittification bringt Piraterie-Comeback
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaIn my Agile CS course we were given a couple of fluff pieces about the development process at Amazon and asked to write about how how their methods aligned with Agile methodology, and how that is what keeps them on top.
I couldn't do it. My paper was basically about enshittification, and how they are a perfect example of what not to do.
Here's hoping my grade doesn't tank. If it dies, so be it.
@frankel@mastodon.top
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWas listening to a song from Paul Kalkbrenner this morning on Spotify. In the middle of the song the thing played an Audiobook Intro of about 30-40 seconds and then the song just continued.
Weird glitch in their matrix? Them preparing in song ads for payed accounts? We'll see. #enshittification continues
@dpl@muenchen.socialIt is simply unbelievable how #enshittification has ruined all of Docker’s websites and is still making them worse and worse. As a part-time user of Docker’s #OpenSource components, usually doing what I think should be regarded most basic and elementary stuff, I cannot find the few snipp…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThis Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol https://www.404media.co/queer-online-zine-new-session-telnet/
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…
@cdarwin@c.imUnder the Trump administration,
US allies who once trusted in a rules-based US order
now face a landscape where access to critical systems
(think the dollar clearing system,
F-35 maintenance,
and Starlink internet as examples)
could be weaponized against them with little warning.
As Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman report for Wired,
this abrupt about face from the US
is pushing allies to investigate technological independence
d…
@sharan@metalhead.clubI've been a Duolingo user since 2013. You can track the enshittification of the product since they went public.
Enshittification is now complete, with humans being replaced by AI. This act of mine is my way of avoiding being treated like a wallet while you mistreat others.
#duolingo #workingClass
@Adam@social.lein.us@cmccullough@discuss.systems Signal is centralized just the same as Whatsapp though. What's stopping them from enshittification too? They're already doing closed-source things.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzFor those fretting about Microsoft's inevitable further enshittification of the already shit Github, I can report (having ditched it the day Microsoft announced its acquisition) that Forgejo (#libre
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euActual content creators trapped into Google's #enshittification ecosystem. I'll be very happy when they start using #PeerTube.
Unhinged Rant About YouTube Getting Worse - GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@Treppenwitz@sfba.social"What about a Discord bot that's exactly like Filmlinkd, but for #Goodreads instead of Letterboxd?" Nope, they locked down their #API in 2022.
Oh, but it's not #enshittification, it…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de
@mia@hcommons.socialAd on the tube says 'Humans were the beta test. The era of AI employees is here'.
I can't *imagine* why people are a bit resistant to AI! At least offshoring never advertised on the tube. The enshittification of 21st century life continues.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
@emd@cosocial.caIf I could “like” this post a 1000 times, I would.
I miss Radio Shack, and what it represented, and what we’ve lost. https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/114800294785746827
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe time has come for me to propose that #Gentoo leaves #GitHub.
#Microsoft has been purveying #enshittification of this platform for years now. Pushing #Copilot everywhere was the last straw.
#AI #LLM
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza @Adam@social.lein.usGame Pass is specifically designed for enshittification (obviously). https://www.ign.com/articles/in-the-wake-of-xbox-layoffs-founder-of-dishonored-and-prey-dev-arkane-slams-game-pas…
