@patcharcana Just can't get behind Ubuntu. Was a canonical fan way back in 5th grade. Paid the .99c or whatever to have a cd sent to me that I could loan to others. But canonical is like any other for profit software stack and inevitably has to #enshittify I think I moved off permanently when a fresh install came with #Amazon ?

If you're a parent, beware! Someone licensed #Bluey and made a predatory subscription "game" for toddlers.

It's being eviscerated in app reviews and I encourage you all to add your own 1 star review at your earliest convenience. They can #Enshittify the world, but they can't do it in Bluey's name damn it!

'Bluey: Let's Play' Mobile Game Explained — And Why Parents Are So Furious
https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/bluey-lets-play-step-by-step-price-parents

This is the reason that automakers are willing to #enshittify their products so comprehensively: they were one of the first industries to decouple rents from profits. Recall that the reason that Big Car needed billions in bailouts in 2008 is that they'd reinvented themselves as loan-sharks who incidentally made cars, lending money to car-buyers and then "securitizing" the loans so they could be traded in the capital markets.

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I agree with this take on proposals to block #Meta's rumoured #ActivityPub-based service. We should encourage adoption of this defederated approach, even if there is a risk that Meta will try #enshittify it.

Not That Kind of ‘Open’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/voting-rights-supreme-court_n_6481e491e4b0756ff85c0c7f

It's a pretty sad state of affairs that we're surprised when the #SupremeCourt makes a decision that doesn't further #Enshittify the US. Of course Thomas didn't sign on to the correct decision but that was never, ever going to happen.

@toplesstopics #enshittify is probably a part of the term!
@pluralistic

This fragility is magnified by monopoly. When a sector is dominated by just a few companies, they can collude to stay out of each other's way, tacitly or explicitly deciding not to compete. When that happens, the companies are no longer disciplined by competition and can #enshittify their services to an ever-greater extent.

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When we stopped worrying about incipiency, we set the stage for today's #PrivateEquity "#rollups," where every funeral home, or veterinarian, or dentists' practice is bought out by a giant PE fund, who ruthlessly #enshittify it, slashing wages, raising prices, stiffing suppliers and reducing quality:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

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The threat from #AI is not that it takes over, enslaves and/or destroys us; rather people will further cyborg themselves to the panoptic i-parasite, and thus #enshittify (per Doctorow) themselves; use it to lose, to flatten themselves and those around them in digital lamination; to erase self in favor of flavorless ubiquity. Have you enshittified yourself today? That's how #Borg happens. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

@baldur I for one will take this opportunity to follow the mastodon hashtag "#enshittify" this could be useful.

Once everyone is locked in, the platform can fully #enshittify, harvesting surpluses from users and business customers for themselves. Platforms can hike fees, charge media companies and creators to reach their own subscribers, block posts with links off-site, insert ads into media (like #Audible is doing with paid audiobooks!), and so on.

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What's the deal behind #Mammoth?
There were some derogatory comments recently.
Being funded by VC's, plans for subscription?
Should we be wary?
Will they '#enshittify' Mastodon?

@mammoth #mastodon #ivory #icecubes
#Enshittification @TechCrunch @pluralistic
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/mammoth-is-a-free-mastodon-app-for-ios-that-makes-it-easier-to-get-started/

Let’s conjugate useful hashtags beyond #enshittification :

#enshittify
#enshittified
#enshittifier

so we can properly express ourselves here in the #fediverse

@pluralistic

We're currently running 5 bots in bird place and have no intention of paying to post news and telemetry content.

We'll probably get new access tokens for the new "free tiers" but no doubt they'll lower the rate limit from 1500 per month over time.

So that's that.
Way to #enshittify, bird team.

Just added "enshittify" and "enshittification" to my Google Docs dictionary. Thanks, @kottke! Thanks, @doctorow!
https://kottke.org/23/01/the-enshittification-lifecycle-of-online-platforms

#enshittification
#enshittify