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Happy Enshittification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ad-blockers, Meta & Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshittification, how corporate platforms die (pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/pot), and every corporate site seems hell bend on its own destruction.

Celebrate #EnshittificationDay by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

1 Jul 2023 at 18:47 | Open on mastodon.online
35 comments
Tim Chambers

@mastodonmigration Seems fitting that #EnshiitifictionDay land on the day that Reddit cuts off API access to all third-party apps, and that Elon crops users to reading 600 posts per day and suffers a site outage.

1 Jul 2023 at 19:03 | Open on indieweb.social
JohnW

@tchambers @mastodonmigration

Very soon we're going to need another term for these sites. I don't think Social Media really applies at this point. Social Miasma?

1 Jul 2023 at 19:34 | Open on universeodon.com
Brian Hawthorne

@the_Effekt @tchambers @mastodonmigration I refer to the corporate sites as Antisocial Media and the Fediverse as Public Social Media.

1 Jul 2023 at 19:40 | Open on infosec.exchange
JohnW
CaptBobbers

@the_Effekt @bhawthorne @tchambers @mastodonmigration
The best way I've seen it all described to people asking what the Fediverse is: walled gardens verses public parks. I think that sums it up so nicely.

1 Jul 2023 at 21:33 | Open on mas.to
okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin
CaptBobbers

@Okanogen
Read "walled" as private. So, Meta, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok and the rest of for-profit social media would be the walled gardens.

2 Jul 2023 at 0:18 | Open on mas.to
Mastodon Migration

@tchambers It couldn't be a coincidence... 🤷

1 Jul 2023 at 19:56 | Open on mastodon.online
Karen Strickholm
tanya tussing
Lee Calvin

@mastodonmigration Ah, I finally know where that jargon came from!

1 Jul 2023 at 20:11 | Open on halcyon.vision
brothercheng

@mastodonmigration I disagree Google is doing enshittification here. Other examples are platforms shittifying their projects after success, but Google here is responding to a new law (i.e. external event) here. FWIW I agree with Google that a link tax breaks how the internet should work and should not be celebrated and I think they did the right thing here (Meta is a little different because they tend to embed more copyrighted content whereas Google mostly just show a link with minimal embed).

1 Jul 2023 at 20:12 | Open on mastodon.social
AccordionBruce

@brothercheng @mastodonmigration
I think Google’s advertising monopoly has broken “how the internet should work”

If that idealism ever worked beyond the back of a napkin

Especially when confronted by billions of dollars itching to be accumulated in post-1980s trickle-up economies

1 Jul 2023 at 22:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Ron

@brothercheng agreed. Google and Facebook are responding to an awful law that breaks the internet. It won’t last though - Canada will repeal the law just like Spain did to avoid tanking their news providers. Google and Facebook are evil, they just happen to be right about this issue.

2 Jul 2023 at 1:37 | Open on sfba.social
Shine McShine
Polychrome :clockworkheart:
Dr. Fyzziks

@mastodonmigration I totally get it … but as a Canadian I’d rather that we didn’t refer to July 1st as “Enshitification Day”, as it’s known as #CanadaDay around these parts.

Thanks dumbass corporations. You couldn’t have picked July 2nd, out of respect? (Totally rhetorical question … respect? lol)

Definitely going to go donate to a couple of my favourite fediverse instances today!

1 Jul 2023 at 20:51 | Open on makervine.net
jabberati

@mastodonmigration Every time a corporate platform dies, the standards-based, federated world will get a little bit stronger. Someday the network effect will kick in and federated will be the default - again. Email managed to get there early, #XMPP nearly achieved it too (and still can, if we finally stop using walled-garden messengers like WhatsApp or Signal). Let's make interoperability a hard requirement.

1 Jul 2023 at 20:57 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Mastodon Migration

@jabberati Every time a corporate platform dies... an angel gets it's wings. 👼

1 Jul 2023 at 21:10 | Open on mastodon.online
Electropict

@mastodonmigration
Got to get me one of them ab-blockers. 😆

1 Jul 2023 at 21:01 | Open on mastodon.scot
Nugget_in_biscuit

@mastodonmigration It’s actually amazing how prescient that essay was

1 Jul 2023 at 21:18 | Open on mastodon.social
Lorraine Lee
@mastodonmigration The monetizers are circling the wagons. Often it's said that #FreeAsInBeer and #FreeAsInSpeech are separate (or at least separable) issues, but I do not believe that to be the case. In brick-and-mortar commerce since forever, the point where the money changes hands is of most interest to the security types. You can't have a #paywall or #adwalls without, if not #DRM, at least tamperproofing the technology to some extent. We can have a network of #GeneralPurposeComputing machines, or a network of set top boxes, but not both.
@mastodonmigration The monetizers are circling the wagons. Often it's said that #FreeAsInBeer and #FreeAsInSpeech are separate (or at least separable) issues, but I do not believe that to be the case. In brick-and-mortar commerce since forever, the point where the money changes hands is of most interest to the security types. You can't have a
1 Jul 2023 at 21:54 | Open on cambrian.social
Spellbind0127

@mastodonmigration why do we celebrate the demise of all the platforms we used to know and love.

1 Jul 2023 at 22:05 | Open on mstdn.social
Lorraine Lee
@mastodonmigration @Spellbind0127 Because our love for them is borne of Stockholm syndrome.
2 Jul 2023 at 0:11 | Open on cambrian.social
DemocritusDiscoBall

@mastodonmigration

This is something I’ve been wondering, very new here but very much enjoy it and the principles behind it. Thank you for the head up.

1 Jul 2023 at 22:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Jim Flanagan

@mastodonmigration Exactly one year from when I retired from technology work. See what happens when I’m not there to babysit you clowns?

2 Jul 2023 at 0:03 | Open on hachyderm.io
Macramé Owl

@mastodonmigration
I like this. My thinking on the problem is that Musk, Google, FB et al think they’re air when they’re mostly chocolate cake.

Bad move by FB to dig in their heels with Canada though - Google seems to still want to negotiate. Canadians get pissed when people try to blackmail us (Meta), and we’re stubborn.

2 Jul 2023 at 0:33 | Open on disabled.social
offal
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@mastodonmigration I mean... News is mostly garbage anyways. I'm not sad about less profit for google and meta lol.

2 Jul 2023 at 1:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Crowvocado

Wake up babe, new anti-holiday just dropped

2 Jul 2023 at 1:57 | Open on mas.to
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