"Here’s why you’re getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws."
@pluralistic on why it's good and personally useful to fight enshittification on a personal level -- i.e. use RSS, pro-privacy tools and services, open-source OSes and warez, etc. ...
... the only thing that can *end* enshittification is systemic change, which is to say, better policies and laws and regulations
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems
Me, I use Feedly! It's got a good free tier that lets you follow up to 100 sources
but honestly they're all pretty okay, they all do the same-ish things!
Two years ago I wrote a guide on how to get started with RSS, if it's useful (gift link): https://clivethompson.medium.com/how-i-use-rss-to-rewild-my-attention-7731267a40d8?sk=54d69b1b262db8d3d1a0229ae69816b9
(my apologies -- I accidentally shared this as as non-gift link, so if you tried to read it and it didn't work, try now ... I fixed the link!)
ahah right on
I wrote a whole series about it! Gift links all here:
https://uxdesign.cc/rewilding-your-attention-d518ede18855?sk=377f68cc5c65904ce3d4a00948eccdfd
@clive thank you! I don't have a medium account so am unable to read it all (ha), but I read enough to get the gist...
(I'm really trying to not have active accounts with my info that I don't use often. I've closed out so many over the last year!)
no, go check the link again! I fixed it so it's a gift link ... should be free to read even for non-subscribers!
Clive Thompson
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