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Enshittification

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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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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Uh not me, I use a much healthier and better alternative: Grok, the thinking man's thinking machine. Anyway Webster's dictionary defines white genocide as

[–] solo@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Doing the lord's work

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've already moved to other search engines as this AI slop really muddled the search results too much.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’ve been wanting to switch to something else but everything I’ve tried is equally shitty or depends on Google anyway. Halp.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if this kagi has a stealth marketing campaign going on Lemmy or not but I keep hearing about it. But I'm so fucking frustrated with search, even duck duck go, I'm just ready to pay already

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I tried Kagi and while I really really wanted to like it, cause the concept is great, I was very unimpressed. It’s not mostly their fault, the internet as a whole has just become more and more shit.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

startpage.com

dogpile.com

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pft ya right, I’m going to research this myself. ::google searches:: have you guys heard of pizzagate? I think it’s tied to trump and the Epstein files. Joe Rogan says so.

Also Santa is real and he only give presents out in October, NOT December!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For a website that's so insistent on making readers register, it would be nice if they got a bit better at remembering that I already signed in. Sheesh

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

lol yeah. Pisses me off, too. You on Firefox by any chance?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was really hoping you weren't. I just checked Chrome, where I logged in about a month ago by mistake, and it hasn't logged me out. That unfortunately means that 404 is contributing to the Blink monopoly, which is sad.

Anyway, if you happen to have a paid subscription, the RSS feed permanently logs you in.

[–] Haus@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago

I have noticed that the "Oxford English" word definitions are incomplete enough to be misleading.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

AI is a tool not an absolute point of reference.

If I use Gemini, I require that the linked website back up what it is telling me. If there is no linked website. I. don't. accept.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

After looking at results for awhile, you can 100% tell if Gemini will get it right or not. And as you say, the times it's right will have a couple of links below it with the information.

"what was Earth's population in 1986?"

AI answer, spot on, with a page of links agreeing.

My favorite stupid responses are when it tries to converse about a query that's not appropriate.

"pilot in Airplane! beating everyone up"

In recent news, a Delta Airlines co-pilot, identified as Rustom Bhagwagar, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) after landing a flight from Minneapolis. The arrest was made by federal agents...

Result I wanted was third from the bottom.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google’s AI is destroying Google. I doubt it’s doing anything to DuckDuckGo or my brain. “Destroying the internet” also seems a bit much.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Nothing could ruin my brain after I ate rocks