‘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’?

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2654·
    11 months ago

    A link to an article about enshittification that’s just a solid paywall…

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      Not just a paywall, but a cookie dialog taking up more than my whole phone screen, where you have to click into it to “reject all” (and it doesn’t reject all), just to get to the paywall

    • Lycerius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      A paywall you find only after you have to manually reject cookies. Done? Okay, here’s your paywall!

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        Ohh no, it’s a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it

        I’ll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow

        But then we have this:

        "The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined."

        it costs a dollar to read the article.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1216·
      11 months ago

      Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      226·
      11 months ago

      When your only claim to fame is jamming the word “shit” into other words…

      You need to milk all that ad money out of it you can.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        281·
        11 months ago

        FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He’s done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.

          • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            11 months ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

            Awards

    2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
    2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
    2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
    2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
    2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
    2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]

For Little Brother

    2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
    2009 Prometheus Award[45]
    2009 Sunburst Award[46]
    2009 White Pine Award[94]
    2018 Inkpot Award[95]

For Pirate Cinema

    2013 Prometheus Award[45]

For Homeland

    2014 Prometheus Award[45]
            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              123·
              11 months ago

              Yeah, I saw those on Wikipedia…

              Honestly the only impressive bit was an xkcd character is based on him.

              Like, you know it’s not amount the amount of awards, it’s the quality?

              Like those Prometheus awards, those are just for libertarians and they have like five winners a year.

                • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  110·
                  11 months ago

                  I don’t think you understand how many awards there are for writing…

                  Do you know about any of those or do you assume any award is prestigious?

                  • dugmeup@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    31·
                    11 months ago

                    I don’t think you understand that most people (like you too) have zero buddy.

          • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            11 months ago

            So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while you’re shitposting. Follow your own handle’s advice.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        181·
        11 months ago

        Let’s skip for a moment the fact that, as other posters highlighted, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. Let’s pretend that his only achievement was indeed the concept of enshittification.

        Even then, it’s a big fucking deal. He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn’t just “lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D”.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.

        Ft It’s kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it’s a little bit against what he stands for I know it’s not apples to apples…

        I read the article. It’s kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.