Cool, I still have my pw but haven’t been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.

Oh well, can’t win em all. Have a good week!

Before I reply I just wanna say I’m not trying to fight or argue I’m just quite interested in language.

All your context-dependent examples are verbs, whereas “enshitification” is a noun - a state of being. That’s why it fills a gap in English.

Otherwise you need an entire sentence to describe that process A happened to B thing and the result is C state.

It doesn’t seem intellectual at all to me, I mean it has the word shit in it and its closest contender for meaning is probably “fuckedupness”.

Fair enough but what word do you use instead of enshittification? It filled a gap in the language.

Peter Dinklage is like 1000x better looking and as @ech pointed out is already fully grown.

If I had to pick an actor who looks like Billy Mitchell I’d say Gary Cole.

I don’t think they get taught as in told to do it, I think they learn from observation. Their peers and the wider society. Sometimes teachers in school will subtly disparage aspects of poverty.

Look at how the wider society treats homeless people and refugees. That’s normalised in most media.

Children have been bullying children who are poorer than themselves for a long time now.

It’s learned behaviour. Adults do it to adults as well.

called a noob

It’s very satisfying to show up in a basic default skin and calmly proceed to own everyone else there.

@Granite I second this. I have had so many non-gamers become fascinated and want a turn.

@PositiveNoise idk, seems to me the big countries suffer from too much legislative capture for that.

I live in a country where I do my taxes for free with one click and we don’t use paypal because we can all make free bank- to- bank deposits that clear in less than an hour.

And the reason the US doesn’t have these basic things I’ve had for a decade is because of lobbying from Turbotax and the like.

Age of Empires 2. Random real world map.

Makes sense. I knew that about NZ and tech like cellphones, didn’t realise Philippines was the Asian test market though.

Sinking lid policy, I love it. Honestly it’s like he’s trying to kill TwitX.

This change will go live today for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines.

Omg I’m dying, why NZ and the Philippines?!

NZ literally just had a general election so it’s going to mess up a lot of whatever change in astroturfing was about to happen, is all I can think of.

Downvote and move on, your time is wasted

Lol no kid, downvoting only mattered on reddit.

Those of us on kbin can even see which accounts are doing the downvoting. It loses its power.

If you don’t like seeing me school you, block me.

Of course they are not factual.

seems unlikely to me that the equivalent descendants of those people would live without civilization.

Some of the people who were trafficked were a lot more literate and well-educated than their captors or eventual “owners”.

I really wish the history of the African kingdoms was taught in schools. Or even basic modern politics and society since the person you’re replying to seems to think modern people living in Lagos or wherever are “running from lions” somehow.

Poverty, perhaps

We’re dealing with counterfactuals here but:

…in a world where the African kingdoms were able to freely exchange culture and inventions with the West instead of being attacked and exploited by them for hundreds of years, we have no reason at all to think those in the world’s second largest continent, such a resource-rich place, would be living in poverty at all.

When I was a kid, there was this joke that involved getting a calculator to say “boobs” and then with a bit more input, “boobless”.

Journalism is currently going through a more sophisticated version of this with AI.

LLMs will say whatever. They don’t think and they don’t care. They contradict themselves all the time. Not so long ago Chat GPT was saying it would kill the entire world population and save Musk for the good of humanity.

Various CEOs of large companies, on the other hand, have been implicated in genocides and slavery for centuries now. That’s very real.

However, had we not brought them over here, it’s a good possibility they would still be running from lions.

Facepalm. World history needs to be taught much, much better.

I don’t know which is more cringeworthy here, the ignorance or the part where you proudly claim your statements are “factual.”

Yeah the article ends up pretty much making this point too:

We’re at the dawn of a platform shift. As Google tunes its algorithms and incorporates more AI content into its search results, the business model of the entire internet is undergoing an unpredictable change. Over the long term, Reddit’s scrambling efforts at financial security may prove just as futile as the moderators’ attempts to fight back.

I’m really glad to be out from under all that corporate social media bs.

Me too. Can’t even remember who mentioned Kbin but it’s perfect for me.

I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.

But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”

Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.

That would be hilarious, getting upvoted by someone’s Petpet or something.

Omg I wonder if I can still log in. I think last time was 2017.

Thanks, so cool. TIL I habitually use snake case for filenames and kebab case for screen names and urls. Never even thought about it.

It really does have that feel!

As someone who was around back then, being in the fediverse actually makes me feel young and lighthearted again.

I hadn’t fully realised quite how soul-sucking the corporate web 2.0 was until now I’m completely off it.