cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56890254
The video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to make things shitty,” the man explains. “The official title is enshittificator. What I do is I take things that are perfectly fine and I make them worse.”
The video, released recently by the Norwegian Consumer Council, is an absurdist take on a serious issue; it is part of a wider, global campaign aimed at fighting back against the “enshittification”, or gradual deterioration, of digital products and services.
“We wanted to show that you wouldn’t accept this in the analogue world,” said Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad, the council’s director of digital policy. “But this is happening every day in our digital products and services, and we really think it doesn’t need to be that way.”
Coined by author Cory Doctorow, the term enshittification refers to the deliberate degradation of a service or product, particularly in the digital sphere. Examples abound, from social media feeds that have gradually become littered with adverts and scams to software updates that leave phones lagging and chatbots that supplant customer service agents.
I think this presentation needs to be seen by everyone.
I think many of the bugs were introduced in “Web 2.0”, so surely we can just fork Web 1.0 and start again from there? :P
BBS or nothing.
why do we need big black socks?
You know why.
No, they meant Bargain Basement Sales.
What kind of bugs?
Adverts, subscriptions, marketing, tracking, surveillance etc
Love this but I will say that “IRL enshittification” is absolutely a thing. Just take shrinkflation for example.
“IRL enshittification” is what happens to captive markets, enacted by near, virtual and total monopolies. When it happens in products and services you have little or no choice to walk away from, you get the US healthcare system.
https://monoskop.org/images/3/3e/Illich_Ivan_Tools_for_Conviviality_1975.pdf
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Been on my mind quite a bit lately. We need a “sub-net” or something, like those community mesh nets, that isn’t controlled by Big Data and infested with Big Corpo. A Fediverse of ‘nets.
However, just as we’ve discovered in the Fediverse, there are going to be size disparities, out-groups, in-groups, radicals, etc.
There is no perfect system. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be worth having, just pointing out there will be no utopia.
You didn’t watch Silicon Valley then?
Nope
It feels like we need a new internet yes. With all the enshittification, commercialisation, surveillance by governments and industry, age verification etc, the old internet is ruined.
Maybe something like the dark web but more mainstream and less creepy.
The small web or indie web.
Just like that Guardians article, you can’t go to read it without accepting all the cookies or paying subscription.
True though I block all the cookies anyway so accepting it doesn’t actually do anything :)
I agree, I just didn’t think it that way.
Halow and Reticulum.
Didn’t know about Halow ,ty
Iam starting to get more info about similar projects .
What else did they do, I know about the video…
Edit: wow, I’m an idiot for wording that in the most stupid way, Its on me for not conveyin what I meant properly, I sincerely didn’t mean to downplay what they were doing in any way, I just wanted to know if they were doing anything else, But I guess I sounded like mocking them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You mean voicing their opinion and trying to get it across to as many people as possible?
Tell me, what did you do today?
He mocked someone for trying because he’s WAY, WAY too smart to be fooled by effort that doesn’t IMMEDIATELY magically fix everything.
Aah, the mark of a true redditeur 👌
I am against enshittification 😐, Ig I worded it wrong I’m a stupid idiot, I meant to ask a question on what else they are doing I’m a positive way but whatever lol
