Shoutout to everyone whose side hustle was manufacturing and/or dropshipping products from countries Trump is Tarriffing. You played yourselves. You should've hustled to build Communism instead of fantasizing about being the king of crapitalism.

We are in 2025 After Crap and the most popular music streaming platform are these with the worst audio quality (i.e. Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.).
Meanwhile many underground and even some legendary music pieces which were available on vinyl or/and CDs have never been and may never be found in their pretentiously 'unlimited' catalog.
What a swindle, better scratch a vinyl or rip a CD.

#enshittification in the #digital #music #streaming age

Bei den Westfälischen Nachrichten (WN) geht auf der Hompage https://www.wn.de/ jetzt ein Dialog auf, wo entschieden werden kann, contentpass zu benutzen oder die eigenen Daten weitergeben zu lassen (=verkaufen).
Ohne diesen Dialog zu beenden, ist es nicht möglich, die abonnierte (!) Zeitung anzugucken.

Vermutlich wird es ein Abo weniger.

The enshitification and enshitiffication of #enshittification

I only went to read a story about WhatsApp #enshittification and now the close box next to a seaside rape story doesn’t work.

Oh yeah it’s the big green ‘Got it’ cookies button down the bottom of the long BS about ‘partners’ I need to click.

Got it

ResearchGate has begun its enshittification.

They no longer allow me to share my publications that have been stored and shared from their site for years with others, claiming that they are now too large to share. It's 4MB. However, they suggest I make the article publicly available to share (not allowed).

Tried to reach the person who asked for the article, only found a LinkedIn profile, but can't message them because LinkedIn doesn't allow that.

A website. With business hours. A fucking website with business hours. #SocialSecurity #enshittification #doge

"Commission will prioritise ... the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner,"

They surely need to come up with a name for this solution, too. How about "CryptControl"?

ref: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025PC0148

#Skoda removes all features to force cars to enable geo location etc.
I have of course all options disabled in car. There is no way that I trust them with such data they already got hacked once.
Today they update the app to make you turn everything back on in the car otherwise you loose all capabilities.

Fuck them.

Website idea: a mashup of reddit and iFixit called “F these guys!” that surfaces/showcases 3d printable replacement parts and substitues for enshittified products. Things like replacement knobs for an oven, coat hooks, buttons for old stereos, car dashboard bits. Basically a pushback against planned obsolescence and the enshittification. Sure thingiverse and similar sites exist, but they are catch all. Difference here is a focused UI that encourages both models and replacement tutorials. Most stuff on Amazon is just plastic. The “vitamins” as the RepRap ppl call them are just a tiny portion of most manufactured goods. Website name is up for discussion. #3dPrinting #enshittification #maker #RightToRepair

If you have used and loved #Tailscale, and you still like the product but want a sensible insurance option to reduce your exposure to potential #enshittification, what *hosted* options have you looked at as alternatives?

Part of the appeal of #Tailscale for me at least was that they provided a really thoughtful UX layer over some existing cool OSS tech like #wireguard.

Also, many of us have tried self-hosting and want to minimise what they self host if at all possible.
https://mastodon.social/@JonathanGerlach/114302498688902923

Proton is requiring a subscription plan now for customizing signatures on mobile. Personally, I don't want an ecosystem of applications, storage, vpn, etc from Proton. I wanted mail. They are spoiling their main product to "diversify their offerings." Don't think for a second I won't change my email provider, Proton. The process really, really sucks, but I'll do it just to spite you.

#enshittification
#technology
#encryption

A new wave of #AI #enshittification is now targeting #journalists. #Expert voices are needed, #experts should be quoted. And people don't want to quote Twitter so often anymore.
Problem: these experts don't exist. Pure #LLM fantasy. Journalist request services specialise on this lucrative "service".
An #investigation by @pressgazette.co.uk - https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/virtual-reality-the-widely-quoted-media-experts-who-are-not-what-they-seem/

If you're talking about the "open social web", "stakeholders", "community leaders", "social graph", "sustainable growth" and "commercial and open source implementations" then you're most certainly not talking about the Fediverse that I know.

New #enshittification levels at #youtube Interstitial telling me that using adblockers is verboten in a browser session where no adblocking is happening.

Okay then. Sounds like I will reduce YouTube consumption to a nil then.

Früher hatte Google mal ganz gute Produkte, heute fährt man zuverlässig in einen Stau rein wenn man mit Google Maps navigiert

#BigTech
#enshittification