‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2985·
    9 months ago

    A link to an article about enshittification that’s just a solid paywall…

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.netEnglish
      661·
      9 months ago

      And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that’s a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, it’s $75 USD a month. Who the fuck do they think they are charging that much? I get 1Gbps internet for less than that. That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries. That’s YouTube Premium, Disney+, Netflix, and Max combined.

        Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          9 months ago

          That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries.

          I would be lucky to get a week off of that. If all I ate was instant ramen and stovetop pasta for every single meal, I might be able to stretch it to two weeks.

          Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.

          The outlet is called Financial Times, and—if you think about it—they certainly do an excellent job in helping individuals manage their finances correctly. After seeing a $75 charge on my bank statement from a news outlet, I would never forget to cancel another promotional subscription again.

          • pearable@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            You can get a lot of rice and beans for 75 dollars. Definitely sounds like a rough couple weeks tho

        • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          its the Financial Times, they know exactly who they are charging that much, and those people will spend that about of money without even noticing its gone.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I make it $100 Canadian per month, plus tax. It’s not intended for us lowly poors.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      Not just a paywall, but a cookie dialog taking up more than my whole phone screen, where you have to click into it to “reject all” (and it doesn’t reject all), just to get to the paywall

    • Lycerius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      9 months ago

      A paywall you find only after you have to manually reject cookies. Done? Okay, here’s your paywall!

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        9 months ago

        Ohh no, it’s a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it

        I’ll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow

        But then we have this:

        "The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined."

        it costs a dollar to read the article.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1518·
      9 months ago

      Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.

        • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          That’s a value proposition. Explain to me how you would price this for it to be fair? If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. This has nothing to do with enshitification.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        361·
        9 months ago

        FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He’s done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.

          • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
            20·
            9 months ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

            Awards

    2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
    2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
    2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
    2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
    2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
    2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]

For Little Brother

    2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
    2009 Prometheus Award[45]
    2009 Sunburst Award[46]
    2009 White Pine Award[94]
    2018 Inkpot Award[95]

For Pirate Cinema

    2013 Prometheus Award[45]

For Homeland

    2014 Prometheus Award[45]
          • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            9 months ago

            So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while you’re shitposting. Follow your own handle’s advice.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        201·
        9 months ago

        Let’s skip for a moment the fact that, as other posters highlighted, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. Let’s pretend that his only achievement was indeed the concept of enshittification.

        Even then, it’s a big fucking deal. He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn’t just “lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D”.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.

        Ft It’s kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it’s a little bit against what he stands for I know it’s not apples to apples…

        I read the article. It’s kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.