
Enshittification
Welcome to Enshittification
A community for everyone who misspelt it as enshitification.
"I the onceler felt sad as I watched them all go, but business is business and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies you know."
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
For some more positive takes
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!deshittification@thebrainbin.org
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
TMDB is a non-shit alternative
Thanks for mentioning that site. I didn't know it exists. At first glance it seems pretty good.
They have an app that I use quite often too. It’s not quite as comprehensive as IMDb, but it’s steadily improved over time
Sounds like a great day for a competitor to pop up.
competiion will barely arise because the ai scrape stuff eventually hits a sites profitability. Ai scraping for example is why Rtings went subscription for full review access, as most users dont even bother to click through to the rtings source for recommendations after googling for a product review.
combination of gemini, AMP links and such has basically destroyed text based reviews
Also known as Wikipedia
Wikipedia doesn't offer user reviews, however.
I do read Wikipedia before I bother reading IMDb – even before today –, though.
I just head to the Reception section and check the Rotten Tomatoes reviews
The dash-comma combo is killing me. 😅
Haha; I had a friend, in college, who saw me use it one time and just paused before going, "Hate that."
I saw its use in an older document/manuscript, originally (I want to say that the writer was from ~1800s?), and thought it was a sensible enough means of handling when you've got two sentence fragments right next to each other; been using it, ever since.
Huh, TIL.
Well, I guess I will never go to IMDb again
I stopped using IMDB ages ago when they started serving their ads through the same domain they host all their other images on, so blocking ads broke the site entirely.
I left those ads blocked though, and just stopped using IMDB. Looks like I made the right choice.
Cutting off your leg because someone is standing on your foot
Bye Felisha
Good thing I don't care about others' reviews. If they start blocking access to movie information though, I might have to quit using their site.
What's the state of BookWyrm, these days?
When everything everything everything became an 8+ a few years ago, I stopped using them and rotten tomato.
I have an account that's like 25ish years old. Just logged in with userrname and password, lol. Making a new account though, bet you need to link a bunch of things.
A couple of media related websites have started doing this recently. There is an influx of web scraping that has been causing performance degradation of the website, so requiring users to log in is a way of maintaining website performance for valid users.
I totally understand that a lot of people dont want to create accounts or give personal information, and I understand that website degradation is not always the driving factor.
I have an IMDB account but Inrefuse to use it because they got rid of the forums.