That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....

These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.

THIS IS NOTHING NEW!

Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.

So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:

Makes no sense.

We made a book all about that - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo… and guess what? It is trade-free. Read it online or download it.

Side note....I like Louis but for fucks sake man start prioritizing a Peertube instance and post there rather than on the "shit" youtube....

#enshitfication #trade #trade-free #facebook #youtube #ads
RE: fosstodon.org/users/futureisfo…

Da testet man gerade @RocketChat und @threemaapp fürs Team am @mzm und muss dann die Nachricht lesen, dass Threema wohl (an einen deutschen Investor) verkauft wird.
Maaaann…
muss ja nicht zwingend so kommen, aber ich habe inzwischen soviele Plattformen gesehen, die nach ihrem Verkauf kaputt gemacht wurden #enshitfication

Spannend, da auch das @KM_BW mit seinen Lehrkräften bei Threema ist.
https://www.inside-it.ch/deutscher-investor-kauft-threema-20260113

#fedilz #Threema

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@thankfulmachine/115777721457653896

Seize ownership. You fork, not to make another browser to compete, you fork to say "this is the source of truth now, out of Mozilla's hands". Fork #Firefox, call it NotFirefox (the name doesn't matter) and declare this as the place for volunteers to submit their MRs, all Firefox-based browsers commit to using that repo as their base. Take ownership of the community away from #Mozilla, make them have to do the merging and rebasing work for their AI shitbrowser.

#enshitfication #opensource

These bastards at #comcast now let impossible going to the dashoard through a PC! Now they want me to use an app to manage my router, holy shit!

Do you know how to go inside their fucking router again?

#linux #bsd #enshitfication

#skynet

https://flipboard.com/@canaltech/corporate-j7n11srdz/-/a-ZCzQu_BlR-K4EdjvLxwyKg%3Aa%3A2584477787-%2F0

#ia #llm #enshitfication

1/ Unpopular take: Apple CarPlay is fucking trash and it’s all due to enshitification of Apple

I never relied on it because my previous car was a swasticar Model SS and Teslas do not integrate with CarPlay and the car did what I needed it to do without it.

Now than I’m in a Lucid Air that has CarPlay, it can’t find my fucking music.

“Play <song> by <artist>” using Lucid assistant starts playing a karaoke version it finds on Tidal.

#apple #carplay #lucidair #enshitfication

Google Extreme Enshitfication 🤬

Hi @JoeRess with regards of the episode 333 of #latenightlinux you should really read this testimony about further #Google #enshitfication through #AI.

Personally this explains why I am not getting any organic search to my personal small business website I launched a couple of months ago.

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