What does “enshittification” mean? How is it caused?

Basically, it can happen when one company (or a few companies) dominates a market, so they can gradually make shit worse for everyone, trying to make just a bit more money.

Federation is the solution. As long as there are many servers, run by different owners and administrators, any single server can only fuck itself over.

That is why the open source community likes protocols, interoperability, APIs, and federation. No single software package, or server, should control the entire market. Single-point failure means brittle architecture, whether through accident or intent.

We could say this about all kinds of property. What is he, socialist? … What a pointless non-story.

Is it common? How would we know? By investigating.

Come on, quit thinking abstractly and use reality as a test. Trump has been looking for those fake voters for a decade. A decade! He didn’t find any… Why is that? Not because of your master plan, my friend. But because voter fraud is just not happening on a measurable scale… Or, to put it differently, are you smarter than state election officials and the DoJ? And even if one of you is, scale that up. How many people are as magical as you?

It’ll improve the personalization of ads that are shown to bots, but all the people have left.

This is almost correct. In reality, rich people inside Google got richer. That was their sole goal. That is all they wanted.

Because look, we all told everyone that the AI bubble was in fact a bubble, and that Google was destroying its own search engine, which of course would hurt them later. On the one hand, you could argue they didn’t believe us. But I think they didn’t hedge their bets because they didn’t care either way.

Fuck the company’s future if you can get rich now, am I right? Never underestimate human greed.

Correction: Reddit will force bots to log in. Everyone else already left.

And this is why you don’t turn to Bluesky. If they’ll censor this, they’ll censor anything.

Lol this is why you don’t seriously invest in crypto, folks.

Nobody cares about Reddit these days. The bots took it over years ago. Like so many things, there was a time when it mattered.

Lol these guys are such bad liars. Because look, if his AI could do that, he would purchase catastrophic insurance for his own company. Right?

Compared to what? That’s the entire point, isn’t it?

I think that woman doesn’t know who everybody is. It’s awkward when people don’t think about the words they’re saying.

This is simpler than you think. AI is a bubble. It is a giant bubble.

Many people, including many government workers, are getting rich right now by riding the bubble. They and their funders have zero interest in worrying about what will happen when it bursts.

(Also, AI is vaporware. It can’t replace workers in huge numbers. So nobody serious is actually worried about that… Of course there are some occupations that have shifted, but far fewer than you would expect.)

I don’t know about it being an average Democrat. There really aren’t that many average Democrats that I know of. Not anymore.

I don’t think you can get personal liability for the principal and there’s no way that the kitchen worker could pay a million dollars. So basically the school district is going to be footing the bill.

It would be interesting to see if any criminal charges could go to the kitchen worker. Accidentally poisoning people is a pretty terrible thing to do. Of course it depends on the precise wording of state law.

This is not news. The president has lost his mind, we all know it, and reporting on one of his rants on its own is almost never newsworthy.

This is a title that’s factually true, but in reality highly deceptive. The AI companies are riding bubbles and the prices they decide don’t reflect the actual cost of anything. That’s what a bubble is. So the title should read that the AI companies are gouging some of their customers because they can.

I think it’s simpler than that. I think the AI snake oil sales people realized that corporate executives want to give themselves bonuses. And if you propose this magical technology, that’s going to change everything, they can pretend for several years but it’s actually going to change everything, and pay themselves a lot of money in the meantime.

It’s greedy people relying on other greedy people so that some of them can get richer.

Sure, and now you know that those days gave you an excuse not to do shit to make things better.

Why should the argument source matter? Because the whole point of social media is for people to communicate with other people. We want to share ideas with each other.

If all you can do is copy/paste, you’re a failure. If you were in school, you’d fail for plagiarism. You’re wasting electricity and wasting our time. Sorry.

Or, if all you want to do is share someone else’s idea, just put a URL to the place where they said it. Don’t pretend it’s your contribution when it’s not.