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Honestly, this article feels a bit like a jumble of separate ideas. Dare I say, word salad. It has too many separate barely-related ideas about some barely-rel
by dangus 3y ago
Honestly, this article feels a bit like a jumble of separate ideas. Dare I say, word salad.
It has too many separate barely-related ideas about some barely-related websites with a sprinkle of AI.
Take the example of Reddit. Yes, third party apps were effectively banned except for those who want to deal with paying a monthly fee.
As someone who used to use one of those third party apps, one of its main benefits was to avoid advertisements. Reddit is a company that has never turned a profit. I’m not sure what person expects them to keep allowing people to access their API directly and cut out advertisements.
When we bust out the word “enshittification” I feel like all logic gets thrown out the window and it turns into sensationalism. A Reddit that isn’t profitable is a Reddit that will die anyway, regardless of how enshittified it is.
The Internet isn’t only made up of a handful of bad websites bad corporate leadership which are on the decline, it’s still an incredibly diverse place where new ideas come to fruition.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIts not just advertisements its getting a useable site at all. The new style reddit is terrible. It takes forever to load. When you read comments they start to crop so narrow that it not only puts in dozens of line breaks it will put the break in the characters of words. Old.reddit.com in comparison loads pages in a tenth the time and shows all the comments as you’d expect. Luckily that still works or I’d fully abandon the site.
- Terr_ 3y ago> Its not just advertisements its getting a useable site at all. Yeah, it is particularly unusable for the community/commenting aspect of the site, because of how often you need to "click to load more", which sometimes means content popping into the middle and sometimes means navigating away so that you lose your place (and sometimes previously mid-loaded stuff) when you return. IMO it's heading into some of the same pitfalls that killed Digg, which over-focused on the headline-links and promoting specific material, at the expense of the person-to-person communication.
- ozymandias1337 3y agoEnshittification will exist for as long as the profit-seeking motive exists. As long as MAU is the prime target, enshittification will continue.