Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈<p>Coworker shared an interesting web site with us on Slack today and, wow, if it isn't an example of modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
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#enshitification
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Mike. 🩼🇨🇦<p>All I think of when on the internet these days is <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a></p>
Chris Smart, ve3rwj<p>Let's watch Rick Beato create an fake musical "artist" using various <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> things.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKxNGFjyRv0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=eKxNGFjyRv0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
John Leonard<p>The Enshittification of American Power</p><p>First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/enshittificati</span><span class="invisible">on-of-american-power/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archive.is/JNwtO#selection-711.0-711.128" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/JNwtO#selection-711</span><span class="invisible">.0-711.128</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a></p>
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞<p>Finally got around to starting Black Mirror season 7. <br>Episode 1 is a very disturbing extrapolation of where Enshitification is headed.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BlackMirror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMirror</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tv</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
AmazingMeagen<p>Now that the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LitPhoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LitPhoto</span></a> app has turned itself into by registration only use, any suggestions for an open access, non-data stealing app to compress photos?</p><p>Google Photos doesn't offer this basic process.</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
Andrew Melder<p>I don't mind your programs Adobe, but not that much to deal with a 68% price increase. </p><p>Bye Bye.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SubscriptionFatigue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SubscriptionFatigue</span></a></p>
Just a trash panda 🦝<p>I know everyone is shitting on <a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> right now for requiring IDs in order to comply with new UK laws.</p><p>I hope nobody is hosting a large public <a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> with users in the UK. The laws will apply equally to Mastodon as they do Bluesky.</p><p><a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/onlinesafetyact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafetyact</span></a> <a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://m.alittlenook.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Francois Heinderyckx<p>“[E]ven if an L.L.M. was trained exclusively on the best peer-reviewed science, it would still be capable only of generating plausible output, and “plausible” is not necessarily the same as ‘true.’ And now A.I.-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of L.L.M.s, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge” writes Zeynep Tufekci. </p><p>GIFT LINK:<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.uU3v.2SwLPT_JhmKi&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/11/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/ai-grok-x-llm.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.uU3v.2SwLPT_JhmKi&smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a></p>
Alrecenk<p>I tried to buy from <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>, and it wouldn't let me. Apparently a ton of things are <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/primeday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>primeday</span></a> deals, which means if you don't have <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/AmazonPrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonPrime</span></a> you can't buy them at all. I guess I'll just wait until after the "sale" to do my shopping. Never said that before. <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a></p>
Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>Here's modern IT in a bar:</p><p>[walks up]</p><p>Hey, wanna fuck?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a></p>
activistPnk<p><strong>Enshitification is /our/ fault, not the enshitifiers</strong></p>
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Paul<p>Does anyone know if there's a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> project aiming to replace BeReal?<br>Looking for alternatives as it's gotten ads and I don't trust the company on data protection anymore. </p><p>(Pixelfed seems like the best option I know of but maybe there's something that's more similar)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverseprojects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverseprojects</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeReal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeReal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p>
trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:<p>Fucking hell. Office 365 defaults to dumping you into a copilot chat session when you log in now? Their really making it hard to get actual quality work done. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> </p><p>(Im all libreoffice + nextcloud at home, I only touch this crap when work makes me.)</p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>Dismiss. FO!</p><p>Let me guess, In a year it'll be 'upgrade your subscription to keep access to your online ONLY files'.</p><p>I repeat, local storage is comically cheap. You are a backup and syncing tool, nothing more. Go away.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Dropbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dropbox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a></p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>NO! Hardrive space is comically cheap. I want you as a backup not a critical resource. GTFOH!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Dropbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dropbox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/MustGetAroundToFindingAnAlternativeNonBigTechService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MustGetAroundToFindingAnAlternativeNonBigTechService</span></a></p>
Jibeset🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thomasfuchs</span></a></span> the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> of capitalism becomes a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/grifteconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifteconomy</span></a></p>
Tony<p>To make things worse, it would appear that the setting has now been renamed from "Wireless emergency alerts" to the more cryptic "Service messages". Android is absolutely crammed with pointlessly confusing dark-pattern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ENSHITIFICATION" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ENSHITIFICATION</span></a></p>
Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>The cunts at Apple could have said 'Not all formatting may be presented correctly' but instead they want to assfuck you into buying more shit and creating more waste.</p><p>I have an iPhone 13 on which notes are created and a 10-yr-old in-no-other-way-unserviceable iPad mini 4 and today the mini puked on a note created 10 seconds prior on the phone.</p><p>As George Carlin famously said:</p><p>FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS</p><p>I will find a workaround to this horseshit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fuckyou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckyou</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span></p>
Vincent Daron<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Le_M_Poireau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Le_M_Poireau</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.g3l.org/@MedBel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MedBel</span></a></span> je fais partie des irréductibles qui achéte encore des cds... je refuse spotify depuis le début. Mais le streaming a tué le systéme. Je comprends que mes enfants et connaissances ne fasse que ca. Ca va être très difficile de faire marche arriére. Le service va se dégrader, va coûter de plus en plus cher, on le sait, le processus est bien décrit. Pas d'humeur positive ce matin, désolé. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spotify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertariens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libertariens</span></a></p>
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