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Disenshittify or Die
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoThe current situation will continue because of the incentive structures. For-profit, and especially publicly-traded corporations, encourage owners and managers to optimize cost-cutting in the short-term. Instead, hackers should both form employee-&|customer-owned co-ops and join unions. Difficult to do initially, but it's how to minimize the threats of arbitrary layoffs, unethical customer exploitation, and craptastic, unrepairable products built to expire.
- nine_zeros 2y agoHonestly, my tolerance for enshittified products has become so low that I have stopped spending on things, foods, and poor services entirely. As in, I cannot fathom buying a shitty product for higher prices any more. It just doesn't feel....right. Oh well, good for my finances and the environment.
- Tomte 2y agoYou don't buy food anymore? I guess gardening is your full-time job now.
- pants2 2y agoLike many of you I use HN as a primary social network and Kagi as my search engine, etc. - but the relative unpopularity of these things shows that most users seem to be OK with their product getting enshittified. In fact, almost every time I tell someone I pay $10/mo for my search engine they look at me like I'm an idiot. "But Google is free."
- musicale 2y agoGoogle is still a useful search engine for google/youtube/etc.
- phendrenad2 2y agoI think Kagi is one of those things that needs to "just exist" for awhile, and then suddenly you'll be hearing about it from everywhere. Like a hipster band that suddenly gets used in an Apple commercial and becomes a #1 hit.
- Panzer04 2y agoI used kagi for a while, but it honestly just didn't return great results. Maybe I'll try it out again and see if it's gotten any better...
- musicale 2y ago> You can’t run your Ios apps without Apple hardware; If PlayStation emulators are legal (like the ones in the iOS app store, for example), why aren't iOS emulators legal?
- audunw 2y agoWhat makes you think it’s not legal? You can almost certainly make something like Wine for iOS legally. But it’s a huge undertaking. It took years (decades?) for Wine to become solid. And it’s a constant battle with new OS updates with new APIs.
- phendrenad2 2y agoThe difficulty is emulating the hardware, not the software.
- mightysashiman 2y agoDamn that was an interesting and eye-opening transcription so read. Thanks for sharing.
- perihelion_zero 2y ago1. I wonder how much of this can be solved by well-designed 3rd party search engines? 2. Would be nice to see some well-organized search engines / web indexes that stay up to date and don't suck. Searching for a lot of stuff on google is like asking, "Please show me generic business site articles."