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   Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:45:07 JST Angus McIntyre

   "Ohai, this is Windows. You may have noticed that I killed all the long-running jobs that you left going overnight and restarted your computer so that I could inject some AI-flavored bullshit you never asked for into your (*) operating system. You're welcome!!!”

   (*) “It's not actually yours, of course. The OS now works for our Marketing Department rather than you. kthxbai.”

   #Windows #enshittification

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     Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:45:06 JST Angus McIntyre

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • steev hise

     @detritus I use the term loosely, of course, but to me the essence of #enshittification is "lock-in + degradation”. No matter how bad something is to begin with, if it is deliberately made worse in order to extract a profit from a more or less captive audience, that's enshittification.

     That, at least, is my understanding, but I'll let @pluralistic be the final arbiter. And if you want to propose a more specialized term like, say, “pessimization”, I'll go along with that too.

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     steev hise (detritus@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:45:07 JST steev hise

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     @angusm technically not an example of enshittification because Windows has always been shit. Still, sounds like it’s still getting worse.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:45:11 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • steev hise

     @angusm @detritus I think it's def enshittification!

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     thanksmurph (thanksmurph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:45:13 JST thanksmurph

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • steev hise

     @angusm @detritus @pluralistic "lock-in + degradation" -- that's really spot on, probably the best definition for #enshittification I've seen so far, clear and concise wise.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 07:51:51 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Free Software Foundation
     funny, I spent last night thinking exactly of "software #enshittification", and how different amounts of remote control over the software one uses makes one more or less vulnerable to enshittification
     it seems to be the concept I was converging onto when I wrote https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/blob-fallacy
     I even thought "software enshittification" could be relevant at e.g. LibrePlanet next year, but now I'm thinking it is so self-evident that it will be old news by then. @fsf WDYT?
     it's funny that I started out by thinking that nonfree software is already full of shit to begin with, but enshittification is like further adorning and seasoning the thing with additional fresh shit
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 09:11:56 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Matt Boehm
     I'd have said free software rather than open source, but even then, the software itself can be enshittified, but that won't affect users as long as users have kept their freedom. e.g., if you accept doing your computing through SaaSS, you can face enshittification if your data is locked in, even if the software is technically free (to the service provider, or even to yourself).
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     Matt Boehm (bigolewannabe@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2023 09:11:57 JST Matt Boehm

     in reply to

     • Alexandre Oliva
     • Cory Doctorow

     @lxo
     I can see the FSF or similar orgs repeatedly and emphatically pointing out that open source software can't be enshittified unless there's a CLA allowing relicensing.
     @pluralistic