I cannot say how much I fucking love this.
As you hopefully know, enshittification, a term coined by Cory Doctorow, is the process by which every online service gradually gets worse and worse. We've all witnessed it in a hundred different ways. Cory sums it up here:
It’s a three-stage process: first, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, there is a fourth stage: they die.
This is a site dedicated to the idea of fighting it. The example the site creator (John Allsopp) uses is needing a QR code generated, something that used to be incredibly simple, but which is now most easily while paying money and/or giving away personal info (and with uncertainty about how that QR code is processed).
The page itself is more a manifesto than a resource, but it works for me as both inspiration and a reminder to keep reexamining the tools I'm using, and to fight against tools getting shittier whenever I can.
Nice share! This tactic is quite old, and the worst part is that it's quite common. Many companies offer everything at the beginning, and once users are hooked, they start to bleed them dry. It's an old tactic that works. I hope that nostr and SN don't become one of these bad examples.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ChrisS 1 May
Nostr is a protocol not a business so while it has its own set of problems to solve the shitification as described here not is one of them.
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I was referring to the business surrounding NOSTR. The protocol is fantastic.
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Yeah, it's a common trick, just one that the internet's helped exacerbate. Like you, I hope SN and nostr don't go that route (though I'd suggest nostr is still not quite where it needs to be to even start enshittifying yet). I'd be surprised if SN did this based on what I've seen of the folks running it, but things do change over time (and that can include ownership).
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"enshittification" is not a term I have heard before but have definitely felt the effects of! An interesting read! Thank you :)
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You're welcome! I've been seeing it everywhere recently (though I'm a big Doctorow fan to begin with), and it definitely seems to be gaining traction.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 1 May
Bookmarked, thanks.
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Amazing! This is why SN is great platform. We get to read a lot of v4v articles.
Thanks for sharing.
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Glad others are getting something out of it!
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this is definitely happening. And everyone is accepting the incompetence at the workplace. Its really bad. Not saying I am the best worker, but some people show up to work and dont realize what they have been doing for the last 3 years!
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I get a NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error when trying to view the site on Chrome. Are you sure the DNS and the TLS cert are configured correctly?
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I'm using Chrome and accessing it just fine, fwiw.
(Not my site, so no idea about how their DNS and TLS is configured.)
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