Made it because reversal should still be possible, and although there's !enshitification, other than its "positive monday" rule, the deshittification aspect isn't covered by their rules/guidelines (nothing against their community, though).
Thanks for creating this community.
Looking forward to what it will bring,
but assume/hope it will be some very welcome positive things! :D
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well the thing about enshitification is that it was always basically inevitable. These platforms only cared so much about UX early on because they wanted growth and didn’t mind being unprofitable in the short term in order to grow and dominate the market. Now that they have, they care about monetizing that growth. I don’t think deshitification of a platform is likely. The owners have no incentive to, unless they lose enough users. Inertia, and network effects makes that really hard.
Deshitification through new platforms meanwhile? Possible. I can honestly say people on the fediverse are so much nicer than Reddit, and the platforms themselves have so much more variaty, better customization and UX options. Plus they’re open source (which reddit initially was). The problem is the inactivity, and the overwhelmingness of US-politics and negativity.
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I was more interpreting the community name as deshittifying your own personal experience with different technologies that are FOSS or at the very least open source. Would be a good place to post when companies are forced to (or even choose) to do something that is significantly more consumer friendly.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 days ago
I made the community pretty open-ended, so I guess both count.
Also, on using alternatives being a type of deshittification, I'd say even that with competition around, the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
If you take a broader view of enshittification (than Doctorows’ original formulation, good as it is), as has been happening to the word, you can apply deshittification to things like right to repair, inter-operability, repeal of reverse engineering felonization, even straight up open source. I actually think it could be a useful umbrella term.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
I subscribed to the new community this thread is about; but then again, your comment does kinda make me think that there are already communities like !freesoftware@lemmy.zip or !libreculture@lemmy.ca or !right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de which should cover a lot of the topics that may be discussed there. Let’s see whether anything unique ends up actually talked about there. :P
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
US politics is overwhelming because of the military right controlled by a deranged pedo and his merry band of halfwit thugs.
I mean, just by comparison, the most terrible thing happening outside America is perhaps in Ukraine and Gaza; but no Ukranians or Gazans believe their current flight is the best thing for them, where 1/3+ of voting Americans actually believe they’re on the best track and prosperity is somehow right around the corner. And guns.
American news is popular for the same schadenfreude reasons that keeps indolent reality TV ‘stars’ in business …except with the added threat of invasion everywhere for the motherland.
Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zip 4 days ago
I specifically only ever look at Subscribed, never Hot or All or Local specifically to dodge all the US politics. As an American.