Enshittification
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A community for everyone who misspelt it as enshitification.
"I the onceler felt sad as I watched them all go, but business is business and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies you know."
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
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Conservatives, a.k.a. folk who endeavour to conserve or preserve what we have/had instead of aim for improvement and evolution, will always baffle me.
I was raised by conservatives in a red state, so I think there's actually multiple factions of "conservative" (per your definition) that get lumped into the same category. I find some of them are more understandable than others.
First off, there's the assholes that are in power and want to retain their power. They don't want improvement, because why would we make things better for others if it reduces the benefit you get, right?
There's the people who don't want improvement as a response to the trauma of growing up in a bad situation. They were often told they didn't deserve aid, and as a trauma response, they've built a mental fortress around being strong enough to not need aid. In their minds, they believe their fortitude means didn't deserve the aid after all, but it leaves them unable to comprehend that the system actually failed them. They see "improvement and evolution" and think "yeah, for everybody but me, no thanks". This is the group "hard times make hard hearts" is referring to. This is often comorbid with the third group...
The conservatives that aren't in power, but still get indirect benefit from the system as it is. Sure, the system isn't great, maybe they live paycheck to paycheck, but there's a roof over their head, so they don't want to upset the house of cards. These are the people who understand "new and improved" on a can of soup means that it's gotten worse, and have seen the nonsense that politicians are calling progress, but that's about as far as their understanding goes. It's easy to say that education is freely available, but learning about actual progressive politics takes a certain amount of free time and neurons that aren't fried after work.
Then there's the typically religious (but not always) nutjobs that want the world to end faster. This is where you start to see the weird overlap with ecofascism. They believe humanity is a scourge, and we ought to die. My stepfather was mentally ill and got us involved in a christian-flavored cult along these lines. I'm one of the rare few that can count themselves fortunate to have been in poverty, because it means my parents couldn't afford to send me to a Jesus Camp or a private school. I left as soon as I could, and don't talk to them any more.
I got lucky, and was able to get out, but people really don't acknowledge how hard it is to overcome indoctrination. When I realized at 19 that I'd been raised with nothing but lies, my entire reality crumbled in front of me, and part of me died that day. I was raised to have my entire identity be in the cult, and I didn't even know who I was any more. I wound up couch surfing and being transient for a while until I got my head back on straight. If it hadn't been for the couple of internet friends willing to help me out, I'd still be homeless.
This is such an underappreciated aspect of the experience of leaving something like that, looking from the outside you just think "finally they got out of that dark deep pit" but for you that moment must have been in one way the bottom of the pit as you exited a reality that defined you into one where you had to rebuild most or all of your definitions.
I imagine it felt good, but also I can totally see how it would feel like a death.
And by extension, everything that had been constructed using those definitions. My understanding of who I was as a person had to be redefined. My values, my preferences, my likes and dislikes were all based on the cult and had to be redefined.
All my hopes and dreams were gone, because they had been built on a fantasy understanding of reality. My understanding of what the future would look like was gone, and with it the security of having a place in that future. In the cult, I was supposed to be something great, groomed to follow the footsteps of the apostles, but outside of it I am a nobody.
It didn't feel good in the slightest, it just felt so overwhelming and terrifying and confusing. I had no footing I could trust, my compass was freewheeling, I was just ragdolling through the void with no idea of where I'd land.
It's better now, but only because I got very lucky in a few key areas. I'm entirely serious when I say that if it hadn't been for a few friends to help me through it, I never would have gotten back on my feet, and even then, I've never gotten very far.
They’re shameless pedophiles who will say anything for power, it’s what their core value is. Anything they say beyond that is a lie