cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1158035/how-enshittification-ruins-the-internet-and-much-more-feeds-filled-with-ai-slop-big-tech
Our online world is rapidly ‘enshittifying’. How do we stand up against it?
Stop using mainstream social media and keep adblockers on all your personal devices?
For social media, we don’t. Let it burn. Aid to it even if you want. The people/companies responsible for enshittification are the same who operate and profit from the same social media.
As for the rest, ad blockers work rather well.
I mean it’s already happened. Original sources on the web have died out tremendously over the past couple years because no one is being driven to random peoples’ webpages by search engines anymore. Try to use any search engine, even non-AI ones, to find new bits of info that isn’t AI slop is very difficult because it just isn’t there anymore. Why make the effort if no one is going to find it?
The fact that you are here is a step in the right direction.
If you are still using insta, FB, Reddit and such you’re still up shit creek.
Yup the more people leave social the better.
Don’t be scared to tell others why you are leaving. I am clear, I am done with a device influencing how i think. I am a grown up human with my own brain…it sounds condescending, i think I am ok with that.
Also when people complain about services…ask if they have considered alternatives, ask if they really need that service, ask how much of their work time goes towards paying for a service that clearly disrespects them.
There is a lot of crap we don’t need, and we make ourself tired working to pay for all the crap, that really does not make you happy…once people realise that it can usually inspire a shift.
this article is akin to “how cancer harms your health”
Fun fact: there was a period in time, when the main use for Facebook was to stay in touch with your friends… Or at least this is how I, a naive person, saw it.
I know, and that part is understandable… I am referring to the title of the article pretending to “explain” how ‘enshittification’ is bad. Well d’uh, I doubt they would have called it enshittification if it were good in any way
I actually thought that I was responding to the comment about not using social media… But I agree with both comments. I’m just surprised how much enshitification happened to social media before we noticed
This is one of the reasons that I’m not worried that AI is going to amount to anything meaningful and will likely remain in its current form or worse for a long time. The current products are cannibalizing important sites that they source their data from. Those sites may collapse and AI is going to stop learning and not have much further competition. Then the companies are going to stop innovating and stagnate while making their products prohibitively expensive and bogging them down with ads.
100% right
We have already seen this with AI getting worse by eating its own slop… and some important sources of training data are already collapsing (like the Stack Overflow forum).
