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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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I think it's a legitimate concern. For car ownership, even after it became mainstream, people had a rough idea of how cars worked. There was an engine, brakes, tires, etc.
With computers, I don't think the average user has that same level of understanding. I could do some basic diagnosis if my car broke down, people can't do that on their computer.
Granted it's more abstract and changes more frequently than a car, but I think the average users is capable of learning basic debuging and should if they're on a computer or smartphone for a large fraction of their day. We just don't ask that if them and hermetically seal computer systems.
Ehh in the same way boomers claim millennials are dumb because they can't fix everything about their cars themselves, millennials complain that gen z is dumb because they can't do everything with computers themselves. In both cases the underlying argument is flawed. Each generation is just as capable as the last it's just the skills that are more useful to each changes over time. The reality is learning how to rip and burn a cd isn't as important to know how to do now as it was 20 years ago. Same as knowing how to change your own oil isn't as important as it used to be.