• zabadoh@ani.social
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    17 hours ago

    What’s your enshittification timeline? (Order is approximate)

    Mine: Broadcast TV > Arcade Games > Usenet > Yahoo > Saturday Morning Cartoons > Email (spam) > Yahoo Groups > AAA games > Cable TV > Game Consoles > Talk Radio > Graphics Cards > Google Search > Twitch > YouTube > Reddit > Pinball > America

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    15 days ago

    When was this done? Because Windows has already been enshitified.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Netflix is leaning hard into trying to make you watch anything other than what you want to watch. This is such a weird obsession of tech companies. Websites do it all the time. I’m trying to read an article and they keep shoving pictures and links to other articles all over the middle of what I’m reading. Oh, and when I get half way through, they refresh the page so the can show me more things I’m not interested in. Fucking wankers.

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      I think they do it because getting you to go to the thing is the point, not watch the thing. Once you’ve gone to the thing they just want you to go to the next thing. Watching the thing is just wasted time for them.

      It probably has to do with maximizing your exposure to advertising.

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      13 days ago

      TikTok proves it works and keeps people with low attention spans addicted and more likely to watch ads. This should become an unethical practice like pyramid schemes. If your website shows a high percentage of unrelated content, it should be seized by the government.

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    15 days ago

    I’m behind, how did Minecraft get enshittified? I catch the occasional stream and the game looks like it’s on another level from when I last played in like 2012

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      15 days ago

      Java edition is still generally okay, but MS has been trying to cram it in the typical mobile game mold with a store and stuff. If MS had made Minecraft, we’d probably have item stacks of 10 or 100 rather than 64. :D

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    15 days ago

    Literally all of those are still incredibly popular and one of the leaders in their respective space. Sure, they have been “enshittified”, but not killed off by it yet. .

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    15 days ago

    Yeah, but you can still enjoy 1.7.10 + 1.12.2 not the same could be said for all the other things