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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I often wonder: can we start over? Like, can we just do MySpace again?...or have another YouTube that's like before Google bought it? If we hate how tech bros have destroyed the fun, is there a way to redux the pre-tech bro wonder years?

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 58 points 9 months ago

I mean, you're on Lemmy right. That's what we're doing.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Peertube exists

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

while peertube is a solution, and I really hope it succeeds, the content and creators arent there, anyways we can always use piped.

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I often wonder: can we start over?

No. All services that don't enshittify will be outcompeted by services that do.

The love of money is the root of many evils.

[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Upvote for username

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough c/politics just banned me for my username

[–] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That tracks

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Even if a great new service or product comes along it alway just gets bought out by somme billionaire

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. The Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement is a thing. Most of the Fediverse is FLOSS, and I doubt there's anyone who can take Lemmy or Mastodon closed source and buy every instance and then stop pop-up instances. It does require quite a bit of work, though, so it is difficult.

I think the real challenging thing is that a great FLOSS service needs to attract attention and care. When I bring up Fediverse/FLOSS alternatives to software my friends complain about, I'm met with lukewarm-at-best reactions, generally due to networking effects (I think).

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

This is defenitely the exception, this is why I hope more people switch soon

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think the Fediverse is not doomed any time soon. In other areas XMPP is an example of an open source software based protocol since long and still being around, with active projects, and attempts to make things easier, like Snikket : https://snikket.org

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Me personally I have just accepted this is the way it is going to be. The company makes a good product and then it stops making a good product, I move on.