I miss getting excited about new tech.
enshittification
Ok so to turn off the fucking wordpress "steal my stuff" option, go to admin page of your blog, click on settings, then scroll till you find "Prevent third-party sharing for (blog url)"
#wordpress #tumblr #plagiarism #theft #noAI #orphanCrushingMachine #enshittification
Edited 1y ago
Time for more stuff to get enshittified...
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
#Centralization #Enshittification
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
#Centralization #Enshittification
Edited 19d ago
This is something discussions on #Spotify tend to miss: most alternatives are corporate services that are not immune to #enshittification
@mirlo thinks #federation is the answer:
“We’re trying to federate #music marketplaces and music distribution platforms (..) if the instance that hosts your music starts to do things you don’t like, you should be able to transfer your data, and not lose anything”
Edited 19d ago
More #enshittification, this time by #WordPress. After being able to view my stats for more than 20 years on my WordPress sites, I now need to pay $8.34/month for the privilege of contining to do so.
Pardon me, but FUCK THAT.
I guess it's time to completely uninstall #JetPack. Anyone have a suggestion for stats monitoring on a WordPress self-hosted blog?
Edited 1y ago
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic about #enshittification , with quotes you just have to love him for:
"Ink is the most expensive fluid you can buy as a civilian without getting a permit. It sells for more than $10,000 a gallon, making it literally cheaper to print your grocery list with the semen of a Kentucky Derby winning stallion than with original HP ink."
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/internet-enshittification-antitrust-tech-doctorow
🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances
You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It works by "boosting" all your old posts (without flooding others' feeds with old activities).
Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57she8000b0bju3osx89uy/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0
Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
Edited 82d ago
Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done so. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together more effectively as a team."
Me: :Downloads the stupid app:
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "You have a message!"
Notification: "You have a task due later today."
Notification: "Here are some random files from the intranet that might be relevant to your meeting."
Notification: "Rate us on the app store!"
Notification at 8am on Sunday morning because Sharon from accounts wants to let everyone know she's a workaholic with no life: "You have a message!"
Notification: "Here's an AI summary of your upcoming tasks!"
Notification: "Love using Megahappyfunproductivityapp at work? Check out Megahappyfunproductivityapp Personal Edition!"
Notification: "Join our upcoming user conference in Melbourne to hear tips, tricks, case studies, thought leadership, and best practices"
Notification: "Don't miss out! Upgrade to Megahappyfunproductivityapp Premium Edition today and SAVE 15%!* T&Cs apply."
Me: :Deselects everything except critical notifications and message notifications:
Notification: "We've updated our terms of service" (We won't mention it was because our lawyers weren't 100% certain "share your data with third party vendors" would prevent us getting sued for selling your data to ChatGPT. So we're making it explicit, and burying it on page 327 of our terms of service.)
Notification: "Someone is trying to message you on our app!"
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Rate our customer service."
Notification: "Check out our new AI features!"
Notification: "DON'T FORGET! You still haven't rated our customer service!"
Notification: "We miss you 🥹"
Notification: "Here's your AI task report"
Notification: "Here's some people you might know!"
Me: :Disables notification:
Colleague: "Did you get my urgent message on Megahappyfunproductivityapp?"
Me: "Nope, I turned off notifications."
Colleague: "Okay, can you turn on notifications so you don't miss another important message like that?"
#tech #enshittification #iOS #Android #capitalism #latecapitalism #business
Edited 82d ago
🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.
Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
I really wish my Mam wasn't such a technophobe. Doubly annoying that she lives so far away & triply so that she doesn't ask one of her more tech savvy friend's to help her get to grips with her phone.
The flip side is that she's the only person who phones me so I have no way to verify if all the phone call woes are her accidentally triggering things by touching buttons or things on screen (I can imagine her holding the phone slightly away from her ear so the in-call screen is displayed) & putting herself on mute or me on hold.
Is it her or has my phone, network or the Lineage OS developed problems?
After today's particularly Mute & Hold heavy call, or calls - I'd have to hang up & phone her again & again to get back to having a conversation instead of hearing nothing or being on hold - I hope she will take my strong suggestion of asking one, or some of her friends to help her.
I was hoping she would be coming over for xmas or new year's, giving me a chance to check her phone, maybe minimize google spying & if I can figure out how to be patient enough show her how to use her phone whilst knowing she won't remember or will struggle to remember.
I'd also have to hope I can still fathom how phones running android OS work as it's been several years.
I don't have the spoons to go visit her & with the festively terrible (non-existant) public transport between hers & the nearest hotel ensuring my spoon tank is permanently empty for the duration so it's probably not a good idea.
Last year I left her's on xmas day just before we were going to have dinner. Walking back to the hotel in tears & having snacks instead of a good meal. I do not recommend as it's probably my worst xmas & would not like a repeat. 😔😢😞.
#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #SelfCare #Technophobia #TechEducation #TechFails #EpicTechFails #Enshittification
JUST ANNOUNCED: public pre-orders are now available for the autumn 2025 issue of #goodinternet ! magazines will begin being shipped next month!
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/pre-orders-now-available-for-autumn-2025-issue/
#indie #zine #zines #indieweb #personalwebsite #web #internet #enshittification #socialmedia #neocities #nekoweb #html #webdev #css #webdesign #website #blog #blogger #digitalart #opensource #tech #foss
The year is 2025. Social is entirely occupied by Enshittified Corporate Goons. Well, not entirely. One small decentralized platform of indomitable nerds still holds out against the invaders.... 
Edited 76d ago
LOL, it just gets better and better with Adobe. This is late-stage enshittification.
They've apparently run out of "AI" training data and now want access to every user's personal data for their AI.
If you don't accept the new TOS, you can't even get support or uninstall the software.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/
Adobe can go f**k itself. There are alternatives. I've switched to Affinity + other software - yes, it can be tricky. But better than continuing to use Adobe.
Edited 1y ago
#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show
"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.
"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"
#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine
Edited 53d ago
Maybe the real reason Big Tech turned on us is that their original plan was to monetize our search history by advertising things we were looking for, but we were all looking for things nobody wants to sell, like "better working conditions" and "social justice" and "affordable housing."
#enshittification
Edited 47d ago
This is an excellent video. This is the message. Perhaps we need to refine it more. Find ways to communicate it more clearly. But this is the correct take on LLMs, so-called-AI and the proliferation of these tools to the general public. #LLM #llms #ai #genAI #video #slop #slopocalypse #enshittification
#nowListening
Your Undivided Attention: What if we had fixed #socialMedia?
starts out strong with a vision of how to fix it all
#podcast #Episode webpage: https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/what-if-we-had-fixed-social-media-WtKyeikp
Media file: https://mgln.ai/e/1511/afp-955611-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/1beb2301-b954-4718-ac31-006197b9bf1b/episodes/87eee287-a57a-448e-b95a-1d1d7c01efa4/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=1beb2301-b954-4718-ac31-006197b9bf1b&awEpisodeId=87eee287-a57a-448e-b95a-1d1d7c01efa4&feed=rZ0cYk12
#enshittification
📢 Don't miss today's #booktalk with Cory Doctorow on his new book ENSHITTIFICATION.
Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it.
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-with-cory-doctorow/
An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.
“Ask This Book."
“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”
Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.
YouTube's AI-powered moderation system needs to be held accountable.
In September, I put in a purchase request for Enshittification at the library. In October, I was notified that Aarhus library now has it in stock. I reserved the audiobook. I just got a notification that it's ready for me to borrow. In one click, I have borrowed it. The library's simple, free, reader-oriented process is like the opposite of enshittification.
I am about 1/3 the way in and this is absolute FIRE from @WeirdWriter on LLMs and their attendant techbro shitweasels
📢 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/