Thank you #Android for fucking up the perfectly functional clock app last night while I was asleep. You suck and I hate you.
#Churn #Enshitification
#enshitification
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@ArtSmart
Quoting from the article:
‘With or without intervention, social media platforms may be doomed to devolve into a highly polarized breeding ground for extremist thinking.’
That may be true of all commercial platforms or specifically engineered proprietory social media sites (whether by its owners/members or algorithmically) but this ‘generalised’ statement does not apply to the #Fediverse. Rogue fediverse instances are quickly identified and just as quickly ostracised from the open environment, blocked by its non-algorithmically driven instances. The only instances which could remotely be of concern in the Fediverse are #Bot instances which are generally topic driven (hashtag triggered) boosting engines — mainly single subject like news outlets) but they are subject to the same proscriptions as any other instances in the federated social media environment.
The #enshitification of #SocialMedia platforms is a consequence of #Capitalism #corporatism #commercialisation and #TehcBros arrogance. None of these factors operate in the #Fediverse afaik.
#Enshitification Coming Right Up !
inspired by @pluralistic brilliant enshitification concept maybe it's time to unshitificate... #enshitification #unshitification
Thinking about those recent "YouTube is using AI to alter content without consent" posts.
Seems to me like they're changing the look and feel of regular videos to match that of generated slop content.
Maybe because they just can't make AI shit look exactly like real footage?
You know, if you're trying to make lies indistinguishable from truth, one (desperate) method is to make the truth look more fake.
Who profits?
There simply is no morally justifiable non-evil explanation for this.
#youtube #enshitification #slop
Cath Who do you think we all should follow on the Fediverse and why?
I start with recommending @pluralistic
Because of
#enshitification #SF #writers #copyright #copywrong #CreativeCommons #DRM
Yahoo recently reduced the free inbox size from 1Tb to 20 Gb. Even after deleting 100,000+ emails, I’m still over the limit. There’s just no point in keeping this trash account anymore… it’s been 24 years, but it’s time to move on.
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give you the pro version??
AHA nope! Dig a little further and pro expires in 2 weeks.
AFTER YOU'VE USED IT WITHOUT KNOWING IT WAS GOING TO EXPIRE
UNINSTALL. UNINSTALL. UNINSTALL.
Dayummmm this is some slick #enshitification
#infosec "#AI"
Oh wow.
Helping a friend... Tried installing wp from the command line (had to put a ticket in just to get SSH access) but i got a db error. Ok fine. Well do it the way they want you to.
Install through softaculous/cpanel
It has this massive "onboarding process" I didn't even think i was in WordPress at all. Find my way to plugins. That onboarding shit is "#AI"
Uninstall
TONS of plugins
Normal AND PRO... all activated. Hmm well ok, I mean, do they ...
Deepfake influencer ads are now a type of enshitification.
@pluralistic
#enshitification
https://youtube.com/shorts/3CTQqoglYEU
Sure US Postal Service. You'll be delivering that package today... 
Scan History
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by 8:00pm
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@tillybridges Once, Amazon's algorithm was the envy of search platforms, but it has been bastardized by their advertising arm for at least a decade now. Search results are overwhelmed with ads. As a fellow author, I've run some informal tests and "lost" books are unusually common. It's crazy, but the BEST way to find a book on Amazon is to search for it using Google... sigh... #enshitification is real
M’encanta l’optimisme crític de @pluralistic : Resulta que no cal escollir entre combatre la merdificació i tenir amics!
Els problemes sistèmics s’han d’atacar com a societat que som.
pluralistic.netPluralistic: You can’t fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
For decades I have written my code not for the purpose of computers to ingest, but for human enlightenment. Everything I have designed and produced was created to improve human understanding and enrich human interaction. Typically, 75% of my code is made up of comments to describe what is happening in terms beginners can understand, and the reasoning why a particular method was chosen. When I look at other code I am often disappointed that my approach seems so unique to me.
Code is art, and AI slop is the antithesis of every reason why I choose to write code. I write code to have empathy for others in my position, for everybody else that walks the path I have travelled.
I wholly oppose the actions of mentally-deficient CEOs to force AI upon everybody and to hoover up code they have no right to. My copyright requires attribution, and AI doesn't provide that attribution.
There is nothing I can do to stop this, and it is already too late given that my code has been slurped up already. That's not the point; my ability to make a moral choice to leave GitHub is what matters.
> Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
> And sorry I could not travel both
> And be one traveler, long I stood
> And looked down one as far as I could
> To where it bent in the undergrowth;
>
> Then took the other, as just as fair,
> And having perhaps the better claim,
> Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
> Though as for that the passing there
> Had worn them really about the same,
>
> And both that morning equally lay
> In leaves no step had trodden black.
> Oh, I kept the first for another day!
> Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
> I doubted if I should ever come back.
>
> I shall be telling this with a sigh
> Somewhere ages and ages hence:
> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
> I took the one less traveled by,
> And that has made all the difference.
>
> - Robert Frost
I have spent decades honing my craft and, given a blank file, no AI will ever be able to predict what I choose to create from nothing. I refuse to give GitHub my time and effort.
I stand by my convictions, even if they seem contradictory when people don't understand the motivations behind them. Bad-faith arguing is evil made manifest and I will not explain myself further.
Kroc Camen.
I would love to see a study on how the retail sector has been in Quebec in the last 15 months.
My guess, better overall for the economy and society in the form of:
- More face-to-face interactions
- More street retail foot traffic
- Higher average wages for store employees
- Higher overall wages as there is a higher ratio of entrepreneurship
I'm just speculating here, hence me wanting a study!
I just hate #YouTube auto dubbing feature as there is no button on m.YouTube.com to get original audio track. #enshitification
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It seems to me that a bunch of CEOs who are looking forward to replacing their staff with AI are the same ones who aren't happy with having to negotiate with a union.
Hoo boy, you think unions are bad, just wait until your entire workforce belongs to an AI company.
And if you think your AI tech company 'partner' isn't going to fuck you over, you should read what @pluralistic has to say about #enshitification.
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That's the new feature to get you into downloading the App.
"Oh you wanna have better quality? why not download our great App so we can track everything you do to sell you more Adds, and dont forget to create an account and send us your mail, address and phone number first."
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