Tips to reduce Enshittification of Internet
Tips to reduce Enshittification of Internet
^Qn.
How to reduce the enshittification on various services.
( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )
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I go outside and roll around in the grass with my dogs. There's no enshittification outside.
Careful where you roll around. You might roll into a warm pile of dog enshitification.
Mmmm a nice warm pile.
It's 100% happening outside as well though invasive ad placements, restriction of access to pleasant environments and underfunding of public services and property, like parks and such. It just takes much longer
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Oh god, I hate how I feel like I could actually encounter this.
except there absolutely is. I live in what used to be a literal forest with a road through it and now its smog and tire dust the moment yoy open a door or window.
Urbanisation and deforestation are not the same as enshitification tho.
It's a bit unfortunate that "increased degree in which something is shit" sounds like what the word should mean, and I suppose it then sort of does.
It's nice to have a word that describes the investor-driven incentives to worsen a service/product to milk out more short-term revenue. The larger a market capture is, the more that can be pushed without an alternative being a threat.
It's the cycle of "provide a good quality service that makes everybody happy" -> market capture -> shareholders push for increase revenue at the expense of quality as there is no competition.
I left a lot out but I think overall it still counts. this formerly middle of nowhere town grew too big due to high end highrise projects and everyone wanted to live in lovely little forest tower with a view but making the car and bike infrastructure able to support the additional homes isn't profitable so getting in and out is bottlenecked massively, local businesses have been replaced by more housing projects so you have to go farther to get food and stuff.
so basically once upon a time nothing was here and you had to drive out far to get anything. then the town picked up over several decades and you didnt have to go anywhere because everything was there. then they got rid of everything and brought in more people so you have to drive again but now in traffic, all to line the pockets of mainly two companies' execs.
Hm. I didn't argue against anything of what you're saying here. I'm just saying that it arguably isn't "enshitification".
Enshittification is the pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and products such as Amazon, Facebook, Google Search, Twitter, Bandcamp, Reddit, Uber, and Unity
I don't see how this is very contentious either.
How's your local air quality?
I wish I agreed with this, but every day more forests and fields are knocked down to make room for more shitty subdivisions in my area. The few farmers that have held out and still use their land on the middle of the city are heroes, but I know that within a few decades they will slowly dissappear, as the farmers die and their kids cash in on that appreciated land.
Not like farmers don't abuse and exploit the land themselves. It's just a bit more aesthetic.
the fossil fuel industry has entered the chat
Depends on the dogs, IME.
Haha.. I was waiting for this solve-all-issues-by-moving-to-cave kind of reply.