Happy Enshittification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ad-blockers, Meta & Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshittification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on its own destruction.

Celebrate #EnshittificationDay by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@mastodonmigration I disagree Google is doing enshittification here. Other examples are platforms shittifying their projects after success, but Google here is responding to a new law (i.e. external event) here. FWIW I agree with Google that a link tax breaks how the internet should work and should not be celebrated and I think they did the right thing here (Meta is a little different because they tend to embed more copyrighted content whereas Google mostly just show a link with minimal embed).

@brothercheng @mastodonmigration
I think Google’s advertising monopoly has broken “how the internet should work”

If that idealism ever worked beyond the back of a napkin

Especially when confronted by billions of dollars itching to be accumulated in post-1980s trickle-up economies