‘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’?

  • TengoDosVacas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    9 months ago

    I often wonder: can we start over? Like, can we just do MySpace again?..or have another YouTube that’s like before Google bought it? If we hate how tech bros have destroyed the fun, is there a way to redux the pre-tech bro wonder years?

      • Clot@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        while peertube is a solution, and I really hope it succeeds, the content and creators arent there, anyways we can always use piped.

    • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      Even if a great new service or product comes along it alway just gets bought out by somme billionaire

      • astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        Not necessarily. The Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement is a thing. Most of the Fediverse is FLOSS, and I doubt there’s anyone who can take Lemmy or Mastodon closed source and buy every instance and then stop pop-up instances. It does require quite a bit of work, though, so it is difficult.

        I think the real challenging thing is that a great FLOSS service needs to attract attention and care. When I bring up Fediverse/FLOSS alternatives to software my friends complain about, I’m met with lukewarm-at-best reactions, generally due to networking effects (I think).

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I think the Fediverse is not doomed any time soon. In other areas XMPP is an example of an open source software based protocol since long and still being around, with active projects, and attempts to make things easier, like Snikket : https://snikket.org

    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I often wonder: can we start over?

      No. All services that don’t enshittify will be outcompeted by services that do.

      The love of money is the root of many evils.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Me personally I have just accepted this is the way it is going to be. The company makes a good product and then it stops making a good product, I move on.