But is it bad? Who's to say?
But is it bad? Who's to say?
Seventy-five fucking US dollars per month? To hear about how the ruination of apps is good, actually? I can remember when yearly subscriptions to magazines were like $12, fuck's sake.
It's a magazine for people for whom 75 dollaridoos is less than their daily brunch expenses
Is it bad?
$75 per month?
Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' bad.
This feels like the economic equivalent of climate change deniers promoting forest fires as, exclusively and inherently, a good thing because they 'make all that new growth' after
I truly cannot wait to see how evolution adapts all the trees to being constantly on fire.
Financial Times actually as good articles which is why I read them on archive. No way I'm paying for the newspaper of the ruling class, not even if I could afford it
I thought it was a meme edit...
Hahaha you wish.
75$ per month?
$75 for a Financial Times subscription?! Why spend that much when for just $10 a month, I'll hold you down, put a funnel in your ear, and squeeze pudding directly into your skull
They can charge that much because their entire audience is in the "what could a banana cost, 10 dollars?" demographic
You're right, I should add a $30 fee for the funnel
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why can’t we just call it content decay or something like that instead
It's also called "platform decay" sometimes
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Because breaking "civil" tone gives it impact.
Everyone in the US of a certain age remembers the fried-egg anti-drug ad (and perhaps the even more aggressive follow on a few years later) exactly because it took a much bolder tone than typical messaging on the subject.
Yeah but it isnt breaking civil tone, its as bad as ‘what in the cinnamon toast fuck’
fried-egg anti-drug ad
Oh right, the ableist ad that explicitly implied that people who take drugs are unintelligent brain fried losers, wasn't that in the same era where they told kids to "just say no"? It didn't break the civil tone at all. Stigmatizing drug use was the civil tone back then. Treating people who use drugs with dignity was seen in the popular media as "enabling" (spoiler alert: it still is seen as that).
Enshittification doesn't break the civil tone at all, you're just whining in a blogpost or bad news article about your favorite nonfree app choosing profit over you when they literally all do that.
I don't think people remember that ad for it having a "bolder tone" but rather because it was so absurd and unrelated to actual drug use in any way (except that I have seen people high as a kite re-enact that commercial and laugh hysterically, that's the only connection I've seen.)
I'm surprised we don't call it rug-pull.
what about "shrabooganism"?
Not paying 75 a month for a one word article that says, "Yes."
Who's to say?
Apparently shareholders in those apps' publishers who own media orgs! Thanks FT
This is a fair price. If the article can tell you if spending $75 a month on this is bad, reading it could save you as much as $75 a month!
I did 4 motorcycles to access the advice link any it sent me a 5th. I don't want to look at any more scooters! You're wrong! Wrong!
Ok rant aside does that site hate vpns?
Beyond parody.
I mean... They're not wrong. Enshittification of apps (and every other aspect of daily life) is in fact positive to the people a publication like the Financial Times is written for. It sucks ass for the rest of us but for them it means exciting new revenue flows.
That's the good thing about the business press, they are much more honest when they're training to themselves then when they are talking to the proles.
But think of all the money that could be made!
Wow, I clicked the 2nd link to take psychic damage and I never got the paywall message. I guess that BPC (bypass paywall) addon for firefox actually worked for once.
You did it. You solved enshittification. Thank you!
Market forces cannot solve every problem, but they can do a lot. And they work much better if users are free to come and to go. Everything in a market economy has the potential to be enshittified: the taxi company can be late every time; your local bistro can serve you microwaved ready meals; the coffee shop can double its prices. They don’t, because they know you’ll leave and never come back. There’s a lesson in that for the platforms — and those who regulate them.
Hot take but the people who use the term "Enshittification" are annoying as fuck. It's the equivalent of saying: "I trusted proprietary software and now it bit me in the ass, I'm going to throw a temper tantrum." Wow, who knew that in a capitalist society that capitalists would choose profit over well-being and the inherent power struggle of nonfree software is the vehicle of abuse. Stop whining about your favorite silicon valley slop not being kind to you, they don't give a shit. The guy who invented the term isn't even a marxist, he's some Canadian white guy who writes sci-fi.
Either read Free Software, Free Society and apply it to your own life (maybe even liberate your computing right now!) or accept that no one cares if you cry enshittification.
Enshittifcation more like
Hot take over.
$75/mo for this garbage?????? That's how much they're paying?
