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.
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.
When long texts such as these are posted, it would be very helpful to have some kind of summary to go with it, or better yet: OPs thoughts on why it should be read. :)
https://slrpnk.net/comment/14721367
As a casual comment in a different thread, with no more explanation or summary than the title, it was well received with more upvotes than both of these posts combined, and none of these criticisms. None of those folk needed a TLDR or anything else.
Imagine my surprise when the posts bombed by comparison, and in communities I thought would like it.
¯\(ツ)/¯ whaddaya gonna do?
Also, whoa whoa whoa, we now have to explain why we think a post should be read? Not 'No', but 'Hell no'. You decide. If a summary and reason-to-read are required, I'll just stop posting.
"Long texts"??
To quote Leon, "Man, nobody fսcking reads anymore."
No need to get so agitated. It was not criticism, it was merely a suggestion.
Never did I say you are required to add any additional comments, but I suggested it as something that would be helpful for others to decide whether or not they should spend time reading it.
Never did I say that you have to explain why it should be read, simply that it would be helpful (and interesting) to hear your thoughts on why it is a good read.
It is a long text - you spend a non-negligble part of your free time reading it through. I read quite a lot, and I have quite a lot of unread texts I also want to read. I enjoy Lemmy because I get exposed to many texts I wouldn't otherwise find, and I am open to having new texts skip the queue if they seem interesting. But I do not have unlimited time to read everything that is posted. It would have helped me to decide whether to read it if there was some more information about the piece. Hemce the suggestion.
Yeah. It starts with "I’m just so angry." and 3 paragraphs in, I still don't know what about and why I should care. If you have a point, make it first, then demonstrate. There is no shortage of stupid points made by angry people, if I have to read through 5 pages each time to know if it is about something that makes sense or if it is about the price of eggs in the hollow earth is not workable.
I enjoyed reading this!
Fuck substack!