Disenshittify or Die

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

by moonleay • 2 years ago

39 12 2 years ago

The current situation will continue because of the incentive structures. For-profit, and especially publicly-traded corporations, encourage owners and managers to optimize cost-cutting in the short-term. Instead, hackers should both form employee-&|customer-owned co-ops and join unions. Difficult to do initially, but it's how to minimize the threats of arbitrary layoffs, unethical customer exploitation, and craptastic, unrepairable products built to expire.

nine_zeros• 2 years ago

Honestly, my tolerance for enshittified products has become so low that I have stopped spending on things, foods, and poor services entirely. As in, I cannot fathom buying a shitty product for higher prices any more. It just doesn't feel....right.

Oh well, good for my finances and the environment.

Tomte• 2 years ago

You don't buy food anymore? I guess gardening is your full-time job now.

pants2• 2 years ago

Like many of you I use HN as a primary social network and Kagi as my search engine, etc. - but the relative unpopularity of these things shows that most users seem to be OK with their product getting enshittified. In fact, almost every time I tell someone I pay $10/mo for my search engine they look at me like I'm an idiot. "But Google is free."

musicale2• 2 years ago

Google is still a useful search engine for google/youtube/etc.

phendrenad22• 2 years ago

I think Kagi is one of those things that needs to "just exist" for awhile, and then suddenly you'll be hearing about it from everywhere. Like a hipster band that suddenly gets used in an Apple commercial and becomes a #1 hit.

Panzer04• 2 years ago

I used kagi for a while, but it honestly just didn't return great results. Maybe I'll try it out again and see if it's gotten any better...

musicale2• 2 years ago

You can’t run your Ios apps without Apple hardware;

If PlayStation emulators are legal (like the ones in the iOS app store, for example), why aren't iOS emulators legal?

audunw• 2 years ago

What makes you think it’s not legal?

You can almost certainly make something like Wine for iOS legally. But it’s a huge undertaking. It took years (decades?) for Wine to become solid. And it’s a constant battle with new OS updates with new APIs.

phendrenad22• 2 years ago

The difficulty is emulating the hardware, not the software.

mightysashiman• 2 years ago

Damn that was an interesting and eye-opening transcription so read. Thanks for sharing.

perihelion_zero• 2 years ago

1. I wonder how much of this can be solved by well-designed 3rd party search engines?

2. Would be nice to see some well-organized search engines / web indexes that stay up to date and don't suck. Searching for a lot of stuff on google is like asking, "Please show me generic business site articles."

Disenshittify or Die

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