Enshitification only comes for the things capitalism touches... So yeah, everything...
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
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Enshitification comes because of the unsustainable growth required by Capitalism in order to appease shareholders. Line must always go up!
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If ads are pushed into ed(1), then it truly is everything. But, as long as Theo is the leader of OpenBSD, we will always have a free operating system.
How has healthcare software like MyChart been enshittified? It's probably the tech I care the most about and the tech no one seems to talk about.
I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it's pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).
I'm not familiar with that particular piece of software. It may not be enshittified... yet. But it only take someone in the company to makes it to show the can make some ad revenue by plopping a bunch of ads on the site. Or even worse, they could start selling the data, which is particularly worrisome given it's medical data. Think about how much pharma companies spend on advertising and how valuable it would be to them to be able to do targeted advertising directed at people the know have conditions that they're selling treatments for.
The data on a site like that is ridiculously valuable. Sooner or later someone may decide to give a marketing company contracted by a big pharma company just one little peak at some data.
I wish it wouldn't come to products.. I understand the need to make a profit, but it shouldn't come at the cost of landfilling perfectly good hardware. I'd love just an affordable tablet with 5+ years of updates and an unlocked boot loader maybe with NO battery, and just a USB
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We just need to go back to paying for services. Free free free everything forever is not a sustainable business model. That’s why the big players just sell you to advertisers instead. And everyone is getting pretty grossed out about how much data that actually takes on you, so we’re passing privacy laws. Those laws mean these services can’t be free anymore.
Good. They shouldn’t be free.
It is not a sustainable business model because when it becomes paid people will realize they don't need them.
Yes. This is the silent problem of enormous wealth inequality in the US. As the middle class disappears, fewer people are able to pay small fees to contribute to things like local news, community organizations, and online services.
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EXACTLY! That's why Streaming Services, Online Shopping and tech producers like Apple have NOT begun to Enshittify!
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It WAS coming for everything, but it's been here awhile now.
Yeah you might as well give up... everything is lost..it's never going to get better but can you put me in your will plz? I want that bag of Cheetos
That big bag of cheetos? Yeah that still only has like 2.5oz, it too has been enshitified.
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