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Enshittification

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Welcome to Enshittification

A community for everyone who misspelt it as enshitification.

"I the onceler felt sad as I watched them all go, but business is business and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies you know."

This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.

From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.

Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.

Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21966139

A lot of tech knowledge is jailed in #StackOverflow, #StackExchange. Too much. The tech world is very dependant on this single gate keeper. This week, freedom to access SE’s indispensible tech knowledge has been lost.

Timeline

  • pre-2016: SE jailed itself inside Cloudflare
  • ? - At some point SE became “openly” accessible and Cloudflare-free. But a massive #cookieWall blocked content and it was broken to a large extent. That is, in some browsers there was no way to get past the cookie wall.
  • 2022 - #AnonymousOverflow was founded. This front-end platform made the cookie wall problem go away regardless of your browser and anonymity.
  • 2023 - SE reverted back to Cloudflare, effectively making the need for AnonymousOverflow more dire; more important.
  • This week - SE tunes the Cloudflare settings to aggressively block AnonymousOverflow instances, ultimately killing off free-world access to tech information.
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