Just to check, you know that Doctorow is the one who came up with ‘enshittification’ in the first place? He’s been on this topic for decades now.
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PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 5 days ago
I’ve read his treatise and I liked it a lot, but it appears to be full of wishful thinking. “Disenshittification”? Oh my sweet summer child, enshittification not only keeps getting worse, it seems to be accelerating. Also thinking the world would somehow, magically, unite against Trumpism, that there are cracks starting to form in the American digital hegemony… I don’t share this optimism at all.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
You clearly haven’t read it, since he lays out clearly the exact steps that would be required.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You don’t think Linux is a Disenshittification solution for PCs?
Because that’s essentially what we’re talking about. You want to run a custom android os, perhaps security and encryption oriented, or perhaps drm defeating is your goal. That all becomes possible if it’s simply legal to do whatever you want with your devices and your software.
Disenshittification isn’t something you wait for companies to do, it’s something you take for yourself! And it’s a whole lot easier to organize and do that if it’s officially legal.