Cory DoctorowAug 13, 2023

#Enshitternet: The #OldGoodInternet deserves a #NewGoodInternet

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification, #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

Show threadCory Doctorow

Those old people were wrong. I (an old person) am right.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification, #EternalSeptember #FidonetUsenetGateway #TheEvilTemptationOfGUIs

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Show threadCory DoctorowAug 13, 2023

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong technology.

The internet enshittified because we got the wrong rules.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #IncentivesMatter #Antitrust #Interoperability

Show threadCory DoctorowAug 13, 2023

We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.

We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware

Show threadCory DoctorowAug 13, 2023

The #enshitternet wasn't inevitable.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#luddites #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 13, 2023

@pluralistic Exactly!

We can see this in bs policies that only strenghtened the #GAFAMs and destroyed regional and domestic competition.

For example @EU_Commission regulations re: #VAT taxation basically killed #AndroidPit as #Android #AppStore with more favourable terms than #GooglePlay:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

In eigener Sache: AndroidPIT schließt sein App Center - AndroidPIT

Im Jahr 2009 hat AndroidPIT sein eigenes App Center ins Leben gerufen. Wegen neuen EU-Gesetzen zum Umsatzsteuerrecht müssen wir es heute schließen.

AndroidPIT
Show threadTimo ZimmermannAug 13, 2023
@pluralistic @elisse I appreciate the humor posting about „enshitternet“ on Medium
Show threadPyperkubAug 13, 2023
@pluralistic TBH, a LOT of those bad policies, it's that lawmakers are CLUELESS, and only listened to special interests/lobbyists (e.g. Senator Feinstein constantly pushing for incredibly stupid and crippling mandatory encryption backdoors for law enforcement, which will inevitably get hacked, and harm the US economy.
Show threadcratermoonAug 15, 2023
@pluralistic
Show threadElías FraguasAug 13, 2023
@pluralistic I like to see it as a "resume where we left it". It's a fiction, I'm aware, but feels like it somehow.
Show threadTom Parker-ShemiltAug 13, 2023
@pluralistic @dwm I am probably amenable to an awful lot of this argument, maybe even all of it. There's just one, giant, deeply ironic problem with it https://tech.lgbt/@elke/110883159296408304
:cat_is_blob_and_lesbian: elke [neo-woemist] :babat_flag: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] cool

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Show threadInterpeer ProjectSep 2, 2023
@pluralistic Preaching to the choir here.
Show threadLaPingvino 🟙 Aug 13, 2023
@pluralistic this seems to me something that Lessig might have something to say about.
Show threadgojavsAug 13, 2023
@pluralistic you’re right. Dial-up sucked. Just a shame the choices nowadays are just a handful of dysfunctional oligarchies. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Show threadPatrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦Aug 13, 2023
@pluralistic Frickin' billionaires
Show threadgabrielAug 13, 2023

@pluralistic

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