I hope nobody is surprised, but the enshittification of Discord begins (continues?)...

What else could you expect from a company that took almost a billion dollars in funding. Yes that's with a B!

Here's to hoping that Matrix projects finally focus on product experience! *ahem* @element 👀

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june

#Discord #Matrix #Enshittification

Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

Discord looks for more ways to make money ahead of expected IPO.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

Auto-Download Your Kindle Books Before February 26th Deadline

#kindlehacks #amazon #bun #drm #ebooks #enshittification #kindle #typescript #hackaday
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“Imagine the author of a book telling people to ‘read my Amazon’. A great director trying to promote their film by saying ‘click on my Max’. […] There is no such thing as ‘my Substack’, there is only your writing…”

https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

#Substack #Writing #Newsletter #Enshittification

Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

^{www.anildash.com}

hey help me out, is it good or bad that ai garbage has persuaded thousands of ppl to show up at an IRL location at least twice in the last three months?

#ai #capitalism #latecapitalism #surveillance #enshittification #aislop

Dublin Halloween parade hoax dupes thousands into packing Ireland capital's streets for nothing

Large crowds that gathered in central Dublin for a Halloween parade were tricked, not treated, by an apparent online hoax.

^{Emmet Lyons (CBS News)}

"If we don't write content tailored to the algorithm, no one will see our work.”

If you are specifically writing content for the algorithm, nobody needs to see your work.

#enshittification #SEO #ContentFarming

Can someone remind me what I am meant to think about #Bkuesky? I can't be bothered to get an account and work it out for myself.

#SurveillanceCapitalism
#PlatformCapitalism
#DataPrivacy
#Enshittification

Programs that make you break your blog post up into 33 posts

#Enshittification #Mastodon

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism

Just had a thoroughly dystopian online chat with a computer at HMRC where it failed to even offer me basic information on the correct topic, despite me telling them what the topic was in a very succinct manner.

It wouldn't have helped, as I've already read that, but it would have at least felt like it was potentially achieving something.

Fuck this future, I want my jet pack.

#enshittification

Aaaaand I just saw for the first time in the wild "#e14n". Took me a bit to figure out it was for "#enshittification". 🤣

#memorandum