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

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We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

How is anyone still putting their hopes in this guy...

Edit: holy shit, I missed the author of this article isn't just some random stooge, it is Cory Doctorow! The dude coining the term enshittification, and even this guy falls for thinking Trump will be on his side. Jeez...

Edit2: ok revising my post a bit. This is more about how what Trump is doing makes US tech less interesting for other countries and therefore tech could improve. Not that I believe some other actor outside US wouldn't do exactly the same with data as US companies, but this isn't what the title implies that Cory actually wants to have Trump do something to improve tech.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Narrator: They didn’t.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

I'd bet my retirement on "they didn't".

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 12 points 14 hours ago

You could just add a period after "end" and stop the headline there.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone thinks they can leverage trump for their own agenda because he's a wildcard. But unless you're directly putting money toward his whatever you're very unlikely to get the result you want. And even if you do send money his way, there's a pretty good chance he'll turn on your at some point.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That isn't what the article is proposing. The premise is that Trump's tariffs and policies have functionally brought into reality the only action that previously acted as threats to keep other countries from reverse engineering American tech and creating solutions to de-shittify products and services. If the threats are no longer valid, there's nothing stopping them from doing so, and providing better versions of existing products, or products that remove the enshittification from the existing options.

In short, they aren't calling on Trump to take action, they're calling on others to leverage the actions Trump has already taken.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Ah, you mean like how some countries that were previously COMPLETELY under the thumb of the US and seemingly happy about it are finally starting to disentangle themselves a tiny bit because the fascist kakistocracy makes even the appearance of cooperation unfeasible?