"The difference between 'Ugh, I hate this service but I can't bring myself to quit it' and 'Jesus Christ, why did I wait so long to quit this shithole?! Get me the fuck out of here!' is razor-thin..."
- @pluralistic explaining #enshittification in simple (but strong) words...
I hope this phase of enshittification results in easy self-hosting alternatives mushrooming across the internet.
Attached: 1 image A man in Saudi Arabia has been [sentenced to death for his tweets](https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-silent-man-sentenced-death-his-tweets-1823779), and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that **the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal**. Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
“We don’t stop hand washing because norovirus cases are down. We don’t stop wearing gloves because HIV cases are down. As a doctor, if you’re arguing that you should be able to expose patients to COVID because infection control annoys you, you should not be a doctor. Find a new career. I bet you’d love denying insurance claims. I bet you’d be a natural.”
This article is a banger.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because
Via @harold
Shrikant Joshi
Jeff Crump