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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (13 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

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