The real cost of enshittification is that they make it impossible for others to run honest business.
Who will pay a subscription for privacy respecting services when there are a dozen free alternatives. True cost of running online business has been completely hidden from users and for so long that they will never accept those that want to cover the costs upfront.
e.g. how many of you remain on Lemmy if instance owners asked for a monthly fee to cover their server costs?
I have a sneaking suspicion that most memes are from CS students, it all makes sense. People with jobs don’t have time to make memes, get angsty about languages, or syntax issues.
Let’s not start the cult of /r/nofap here. And no, you are not suddenly more charismatic and confident. You are just not reeking of cum all the time, something achievable with regular showers as well.
A YouTube prankster who was shot by one his targets told jurors Tuesday he had no inkling he had scared or angered the man who fired on him as the prank was recorded....
How much do you think the poor guy makes? And now he has to pay for a lawyer, lose the job, and probably go to jail. Only so this dipshit can get the right “reaction”.
And the shooting would’ve been completely justified for a cop.
All men want to be (discuss.tchncs.de)
Password requirements are getting out of hand (lemmy.ca)
Anon takes an online psych test (sh.itjust.works)
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... (youtube.com)
Seriously, most of them are failed artists and screen writers (lemmy.world)
Doug Bowser: Nintendo doesn't have unions because of "high degree of job satisfaction and engagement" (www.eurogamer.net)
What are you using? Notepad? (lemmy.world)
So many people still think its ok for them to do📱 (lemmy.ml)
Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.
meet project primrose, adobe’s real-life interactive dress that changes design every second (www.designboom.com)
can anyone tell me wtf this is? (pasteboard.co)
Found it dead in my dishes
Anon breaks his chains (sh.itjust.works)
What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”
Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
YouTube prankster says he had no idea he was scaring man who shot him (www.nbcwashington.com)
A YouTube prankster who was shot by one his targets told jurors Tuesday he had no inkling he had scared or angered the man who fired on him as the prank was recorded....
Women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men: Study (www.yahoo.com)
Anon accidentally gentrifies their neighborhood. (sh.itjust.works)
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Sowing chaos (startrek.website)
Blasphemy! (lemdro.id)
Apple faces renewed pressure to protect child safety: ‘Child sexual abuse is stored on iCloud. Apple allows it.’ (9to5mac.com)
Amazon owns .book and .read since 2015 yet still do not allow registrations for these domains.
Barnes and noble wanted one of these domains and sent an appeal to ICANN. They lost the appeal....
I love d (lemmy.world)
Anon is a Windows user (lemmy.world)
The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
Movies vs life (lemmy.world)