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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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[–] mydude@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Enshitification only comes for the things capitalism touches... So yeah, everything...

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Enshitification comes because of the unsustainable growth required by Capitalism in order to appease shareholders. Line must always go up!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Enshittification comes from failure of government to establish a market where capitalism acts for the benefit of society. It comes from failure of antitrust regulations, failure of consumer protections, failure of broadcaster fairness doctrine, failure to reward a sustainable business model rather than simply maximizing quarterly profit, failure to support public broadcasting, failure to mandate ethics/honesty/transparency, failure to incent public good such environmental responsibility.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

So Capitalism, gotcha.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago

If ads are pushed into ed(1), then it truly is everything. But, as long as Theo is the leader of OpenBSD, we will always have a free operating system.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it won't touch projects like KDE.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I am a big fan of KDE, but having qt's role in mind I wouldn't be too sure. I think they already try to enforce tracking there.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Qt is exactly why I'm so sure. They made sure that there was a legal agreement that Qt would always stay open source or else they'd get the ability to make it available under a BSD license: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/

That's a project that understands the entanglement and doesn't allow itself to be taken over.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

That's amazing news. Thank you for clarifying