sundray
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- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 8 hours ago:
It’s terrible, airsoft monkeys always keep firing even after you put your hands up.
- Comment on DYNASTY WARRIORS 25th Anniversary Trailer 1 day ago:
They tried to make DW 9 open world and it didn’t go super great.
- Comment on Osama boeing laden💀 1 day ago:
Oh man, in the Planes universe do you suppose the modern Boeings are like a family of losers and fuck-ups? “You stay away from them, they could lose a door plug at any minute!”
- Comment on Male 1 day ago:
It is an army of the people.
- Comment on Not sure about this one 2 days ago:
Look man, I’m gonna swim under that pier whether you want me to or not.
- Comment on Why not? 2 days ago:
“You deny your blade its purpose! Cut that shit in half!”
- Comment on hygiene 2 days ago:
- Comment on heaven 2 days ago:
Can’t wait to go to that wonderful place with all the burning and poking!
- Comment on 4 days ago:
“What makes a man turn neutral?”
- Comment on Don't say I didn't warn you 4 days ago:
Hello weary traveler, welcome to the village of Fareskin.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Fair, thank you. There does seem to be some confusion about enshittification vis a vis personal effects, versus Enshittification that exists in the world. (Reducing the former doesn’t reduce the latter, and the latter still remains everyone’s problem.) I used a bookmarklet to grab the link and tagline. I’ll update the title to more accurately reflect the content of the essay.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Would you say individual choices have slowed or reversed enshittification?
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
I love how unshitty Lemmy is 😊 . That’s why I post here so much!
But Reddit isn’t less shitty as a result. I think it’s even getting worse.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Great!
Is… is someone trying to stop you from doing that?
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
The irony
How so?
- Comment on Honk 4 days ago:
That’s a big honker!
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
That’s wonderful! It’s good to diminish the amount of enshittification you experience in your life!
Enshittification, writ large, goes on regardless. The point of the essay is that avoiding it in your personal life is good (if sometimes tiresome, depending on the specifics of your life) and you should totally do that, but the root causes of enshittification can be defeated by organized collective action.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
he should try not starting with belittling people’s efforts that they can do in there individual lives of which doesn’t preclude anything they can do communally
“Do all this! Do more! You’ll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.”
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.
It’s *nice *when that happens, when big-money players take notice of grass-roots movements and push forward their agendas. Pretty rare, though.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
“Do all this! Do more! You’ll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.”
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
The great news is that he’s on Mastodon, if you’d like to reach out: mamot.fr/…/pluralistic)
He might care a little about distributed services.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
First, it looks like this may be a dressed up advertisement for their newly released book:
To be fair, this is a web archive of Cory Doctorow’s email newsletter, normally sent to a self-selecting audience that expects to see Cory try to sell us his stuff. But also, as the coiner of “enshittification” this is a subject he’s been examining for many years.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
I’m not going to bankrupt them, but I’m not helping them.
That’s good!
If you ever want to step up to hurting them, you’ll probably need to party up.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Defeatism will get us nowhere.
I agree! And, I think the linked essay agrees, also? I mean the last sentence literally says, “You can’t fight enshittification. But together, we can.”
That sounds very different than, “Acceptance of or resignation to the prospect of defeat. Acceptance of the inevitability of defeat. Acceptance of defeat without struggle.”
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Well, it’s Cory Doctorow doing the saying.
But in my own opinion, boycotts work for products and services that you pay for; personally refusing to use services that rely on money from other business, less so. The #DeleteFacebook movement has existed since at least 2017. Twitter loudly hemorrhaged users after the Musk buyout. “DeGoogle” has been a thing since 2006. Small business, progressives, and others have been advocating boycotting Amazon for over a decade… and yet they all still exist, they are all still bad actors, and show no signs of getting any better.
The people who have left those services are better off, and that’s good – better than good! But these corporate ogres haven’t stopped destroying society because of it. They haven’t even slowed down.
To look at it another way: ALL of these corpos fear government regulation, especially in labor and fair business practices: You know that’s true because they ALL spend billions fighting it tooth and nail.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 4 days ago:
Far be it from me to defend a jumping-off point for discussion, but I didn’t see anything in the essay saying that people shouldn’t “do the right thing.” Just the opposite, in fact (“Do all this! Do more! You’ll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases, much better.”)
- I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your lifepluralistic.net ↗Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS 5 days ago:
I’ve spent the last few years of my life in the USA looking for some decent pumpernickel.
- Comment on Japan 5 days ago:
SFII announcer voice:
- Comment on Remember this golden rule 6 days ago:
How do you solve a problem like EVERYBODY?
