We're living in the #enshittocene , in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into t (media.kbin.run)

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We're living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

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[-] COMPU73E@mstdn.games 1 points 11 months ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr great piece. That quote about the French railway got me thinking. Our entire society has become enshittified.

That homeless person sleeping in a shop doorway that you pass in the morning on the way to work? Society needs that person to act as a deterrent, to keep you turning up every day to a job you hate, because if you don't, if you stop complying and paying your rent, that will be YOU

[-] realtime@fosstodon.org 1 points 11 months ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr bring on the #enshittocore aesthetic

[-] targetdrone@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr Being one of Chamberlain's many enshittification victims, I bought a "ratgdo" (Rage Against The Garage Door Opener), a small $30 circuit that hooks to a Chamberlain-brand garage door opener and lets me control it locally with #HomeAssistant. I then disconnected my opener from the official MyQ site and deleted their app.

It's a small victory, but I savored it.

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