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The links I mentioned explain precisely (and at length) why you cannot "just build it yourself". Enshittification means a lot more than just "we made it worse"
by palata 8mo ago
The links I mentioned explain precisely (and at length) why you cannot "just build it yourself".
Enshittification means a lot more than just "we made it worse". It's more "we got in a position where we could make it worse, and nobody can do anything about it". Of course I oversimplify it a lot, I just can't say it better than Doctorow.
Again, I suggest you watch that 39C3 talk (it's like 45min?) because Doctorow talks really well and it's a very good introduction to the problem. His book goes into a lot more details and gives a lot more examples, but I understand that it's already almost impossible to get someone to watch a 45min presentation, so reading a whole book is out of the question for most people... :-)
- aurareturn 8mo agoBusiness loses money to gain customers and then need to make a profit. I'm shocked. Do we not know how businesses work? If you don't find enough value in the business, just quit and find another or build one yourself.
- palata 8mo agoDude, if you can't be arsed to even consider the idea behind "enshittification", just stop complaining about it. It is an interesting concept, but you have to read a few words to get it.
- aurareturn 8mo agoEnshittification is just a business technique. They lose money to gain customers. They then need to make a profit back. So what? I don't see a problem with that.
- palata 8mo agoYou don't understand what the concept of enshittification is, and keep proving it. Just go read about it (I shared links), or leave me alone.
- aurareturn 8mo agoYou don't understand the concept of business and keep proving it. Just go read about business or leave me alone.
- palata 8mo agoExcept that we are talking about enshittification. The fact that you don't understand quantum physics or insects brings nothing here. Why would you care if I understand business here? We're talking about enshittification. If you want to say that "enshittification makes no sense", the VERY LEAST you can do is spend a few minutes trying to understand what enshittification is. It is an entire concept, Doctorow wrote a whole book about it. It's not "whatever you understand when you hear the word".