My wife is gonna love this!
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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They heard customers say they needed the vacuum to suck more, and they delivered the only way they knew how...
They should have strapped a fleshlight to it.
Would somebody clean the house then? Everybody would be cleaning their balls.
This is just another way to spy/sell user data. Not today, devil.
-what's that loud noise?
-just my new phone
Sorry babe, I can’t call tonight, the wifi calling on my washing machine isn’t working
Call from your fridge, damnit!
No way bro I’m playing Skyrim on that
We absolutely must find a problem for this solution. We have spent too much money not to
We found a problem. Now you MUST buy OUR solution.
No thank you. I don't even make calls on my phone. I'm not paying a subscription to send data about my habits to Samsung.
Let me stand in front of the loud washing machine and make a few phone calls. I do kinda like the idea of a Washer/Dryer in one unit, thats sorta cool, but then they throw all this other useless stuff on it so they can charge more for it.
HI HONEY! .... thud, thud, thud, thud .... YEAH! WORKS FINE!!! ... HOW WAS YOUR DAY!? ... thud, thud, thud, thud ... WHAT'S THAT? HURRY, THE SPIN CYCLE SHOULD START SOON ... thud, thud, thud, thud ... YEAH I PICKED UP THE GROCERIES!!! ... WHEN ARE YOU ?????????? .... ZZZZZZZZZZZ, WWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! .... OH YEAH THE SPIN CYCLE IS ON!!!! .... I SAID THE SPIN CYCLE IS ON!!!!!! ... ZZZZZZZZZZZ, WWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! .... HELLO!!??? .... OK!!!! ..... BYE!!!!!!!
Future... How companies are seeing it: 😍 How users are seeing it: Fucking 🕵️♂️
Must be a pretty small segment of the market that wants this much technology in a vacuum but won't just buy a Roomba
Corporations have really ruined "bespoke" for me
Wanna bet all this ai push is so they can spy on us more or less in the open?