What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image with and the whole post body just the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance (empty menus and all that...). It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life. The fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. #WhatIsThis#Enshitternet#ContentFarms#Curation#Movies#Cinemastodon#Film@film
Iga kord kui ma Twitterisse/Xi satun, on see järjest hullemaks "natsibaariks" muutunud - ja varem pealtnäha täiesti mõistlikud isendid on otsustanud edgelord'iks hakata ja sellega natsihakatistele läheneda...
Bluesky omakorda tundub olevat koht, kus halatakse, et mingis Mastodonis või Threadsis on neile halvasti öeldud.
When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the #enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
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Portraits of Queen West is #KevinSteele's extraordinary photo-book, a work of "sequential art" featuring time- and space-series of a single - rather glorious - stretch of #Toronto's #QueenStreetWest:
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The enshittification of the old, good web continues apace, but there has never been more energy to build a new, good internet - and banish the #enshitternet of #BigTech to the scrapheap of history.
In the same way, Toronto's much eroded urbanism, pluralism and liveability are both at their lowest ebb in my lifetime - and also at their most hopeful moment of the century.
This week on my podcast, I read "Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet," my recent @medium column about building a better internet:
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Likewise, the problem wasn't who made that tech. We didn't swap wise UUCP Monks for venal tech bros. Early tech was full of public-spirited sysops, but it was also full of would-be monopolists who tried - and failed - to get us to "stop talking to each other and start buying things":
If it wasn't the technology that killed the old, good internet, and if it wasn't the people who killed the old, good internet, where did the #enshitternet come from?