The fact that so many people were taken aback by the enshittification of Discord really frustrates me. Just like with Reddit, just like with Bluesky. It really frustrates me that people still somehow get surprised by the most predictable shit.

If there ever is a mass exodus of Discord or Bluesky, it will be towards yet another alternative that will already have all of the signs of the same shit happening a few years later but once again, people will be surprised.

I don't even blame the average users for this, I honestly blame a lot of the people who have a say in these changes, notably tech journalist and so on, always going for the new shiny thing, like the Arc Browser for example, ignoring all of the telltale signs of future enshittifcation1, having no qualms serving as glorified advertisers for these types of product, and never giving a shit about decentralized alternatives or free and open source software.

#discord #bluesky #arcbrowser #enshittifcation

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@beandev/116232403269827894

Es kann nicht mehr lange dauern, und die anderen Länder ziehen nach. Wer schonmal in den USA serielles Fernsehen sehen musste, weiß, dass die Amis einiges an Leidensfähigkeit mitbringen.

Die regen sich vermutlich erst dann auf, wenn der Erstgeborene bei Amazon versklavt werden muss.

#di_day #Enshittifcation #Amazon #Bezos #Gier

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141082378515849

This is funny and aggravating at the same time. #enshittifcation #MakeItShitty

Fortunes to the Bold who favor Dis-#enshittifcation:

"Ireland pulled off its tax-haven gambit by making influential people very rich, so that they would go to bat for Ireland. The Ireland for disenshittification will have the same chance.

"The new tech companies that unlock US Big Tech's trillions and turn them into their own billions...(remainder being shared by us, tech users, in the form of lower prices and better products) will be a powerful bloc..."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/#circumvention-haven

The #enshittifcation of #Kiva saddens me. Gee Whiz UI that hides basic info we used to be able to easily see, defaulting to donating to kiva on every loan & no apparent way to save the preference, etc.

In 2010 I decided to move all my charitable resources (meager as they were/are) to Kiva. In the past few years it seems they're doing their best to drive me off. So far I'm still gritting my teeth and relending every time payments come in.

On a brighter note, here's the borrower I chose in the latest round. She and the #chickens are obviously comfortable around each other:

Another one bites the enshittification dust. Topaz Labs photo editing apps have no gone to a subscription model and done so in a not particularly transparent way, at least for those of us who already owned their older apps. I bought Video AI and Photo AI a year ago,, but didn't realize that apparently Photo AI is a subscription that seems to have now turned into Topaz Photos and is $400/year. Uh, no thanks.

I'm going back and forth with their customer support, asking for clarification, since what changed and when is anything but clear.

All I know is I got a 3-day renewal notice for $400 (but with some random large discount to soften the sticker shock). Had this happened last week, when I was AFK in Mexico, I would've been charged and had to fight it. 3 days notice after transitioning to a new subscription model seems not just sneaky, but manipulative.

#enshittifcation #Topaz_photo_ai #TopazLabs