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   Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 22:13:40 JST Ciara

   We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website.

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 19:18:50 JST phiofx

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     @CiaraNi

     in extreme form (like #facebook basics in the Filippines) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-free-basics-developing-markets its essentially #digitalcolonialism.

     An entire country exists online only via some #surveillancecapitalism platform.

     Like old style colonialism, its predicated on rapacious foreigners bribing colluding locals to extract and exploit whaever value there is.

     Its one of the major disgraces of our era, alas hardly even acknowledged yet.