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as was predicted as soon as it was coined, the term enshittification has completely lost its original meaning and now just means "made bad"
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it is so extremely weird to me that so many systems that are explicitly graphs (semweb/linked data, graphql, etc.) don't do the obvious, convenient, and well defined thing of making the interface a freaking *graph* eg. in 2010 Tim BL specifically recommended *against* representing linked data as a graph using the standard "normal users" argument, but did they like, try that first... The rest of this document argues in favor of tree representations (which are just a constrained graph layout) but the whole thrust of the argument is hiding the graph structure rather than making it manageable to interact with - r/anarchychess leaks onto a bunch of neighboring subreddits by replying to things with a string of replies: "Google [x]" "holy hell" etc. disclaimer: I am not a huge reddit head, but I do lurk on some minor cult/scam/weird meme subreddits because they do weird things like this or are cults or scams which I am fascinated by. do not cyberbully me. I don't think I love anything more than my cat sleeping on top of me while I sleep. one big catpile is all I've ever wanted from and for the world ok genuine question for anti-javascript ppl is the idea that web content should be static or that there's some alternative to doing stuff like buttons and animations and stuff that would have been better? !/  @jonny i don't think of myself as "anti javascript" in a strong categorical sense, but i do think of myself as despairing of web technology for a complex of reasons in which javascript is fairly intertwingled, and i'd say... it's complicated. some of those reasons: - browser as platform that's too complex to be re-implemented for less than billions of dollars (and thus, at this point, a locked-in effective monopoly) (1/2 or so) More fun publisher surveillance:
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@jonny Aaah yes, DMCA against random citizens, enforced by the same govs who original funded the majority of the papers in the first place. So, the tax payer gets to pay for the education, the research, the access fee AND the cops and legal system who have to go after the right minded citizens who publish the stuff they already payed for at least twice. This is fine. 🔥 The market will regualte itself. Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale. |
@jonny metaenshittification, wherein capitalism co-opts its own criticism in order to sell t-shirts and reduce it to an aesthetic stance
@jonny farewell enshit9n, we barely knew ya
@jonny best to not stick to #fahernista thinking and use the hashtag #dotcons as a better 20-year-old categorization for this same mess, it's more on subject.