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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.

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🔹 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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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This wall text doesn't list a single one alternative

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

TS Eliot would be proud.
So would Edgar Alan Poe, for that matter.

Aw hell... Dante, too.
The techbrahs and enshittifiers deserve the 9th circle, they are inch by inch savoring their betrayal of humanity.

The 9th circle was made for them, and sending them home is as good as doing the same for a Nazi.

Not that most of them aren't also Nazis.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I rarely see an ad, one every two months, apart from ads I see on the occasion I do online shopping. If it ever gets to the point that I can't get some add-on or other way to block ads on YouTube I WILL stop watching YouTube. Jellyfin and the way it works takes care of the rest.

There are still many specialty forums run by enthusiasts, for any subject you can think of. You just need to look for them.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago
[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

I sometimes use the official YouTube app to chromecast stuff to my tv and its hilarious. What an experience :) Im just laughing.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Shiver me timbers!

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Has yt just...stopped working for anyone else? I assume it's due in some part to the various addons I have blocking ads and js, but it was just getting jankier and laggier (lagging my whole system) by the day until the latest ui update broke it completely. I've just moved off the site entirely now, so probably for the best, but I struggle to understand how progressively making the user experience worse is supposed to generate higher profits. So dumb.

[–] salacious_coaster 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Freetube and Newpipe still work for now.

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

This is what we built our nations to fund! This. Is. Freedom!

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