Acester47 54 points 3 years ago

is facebookification a word? I am so sad to see this happen as a long time user of Reddit, been on there for...god, 11 years according to my profile awards. I see a lot of people saying this is the end of Reddit but I have to disagree, it is more like a new age. Reddit will now only be used by people who are fine with getting absolutely fucked with ads and close to nil moderation. I imagine it will be a husk of what it once was - it'll look the same but I'm sure it will just be repost land. It wasn't hard to see this coming, but I can't help but feel a sadness.

Do I need to go outside more? Probably.

RIP

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thekerker 71 points 3 years ago

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thiccdiccnicc 14 points 3 years ago

I've been using this term a LOT since coming across that Medium article.

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Mert 13 points 3 years ago

Wow, thanks for teaching me this term! Fuck capitalism!

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Gray 6 points 3 years ago

Does this mean "shittification" and "enshittification" mean the same thing like "valuable" and "invaluable" mean the same thing?

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Gray 24 points 3 years ago

With the Fediverse slowly gaining steam, I've been thinking a lot about the structural problems with the big social media platforms of old. I really feel like we set ourselves up for this outcome. Of course Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit were going to let us down sooner or later. We placed our trust in private centralized companies to stay good on their ethics. The moment money even entered the discourse in those spaces, they were doomed to become what they are now. I really hope Lemmy and Mastodon and Frendica and Peertube and the other Fediverse platforms can gain popularity. We have a real chance here to build social media from the ground up, but this time with the long term ethics in mind. I really think this decentralized structure can allow us to keep more transparency and allow for smaller feeling communities to thrive without being subject to tyrannical administration.

Edit: Corrected "momey" to "money". Really sounded like a weird fetish there, I am sorry. Momey is not entering the discourse in any spaces, thank you very much.

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Acester47 21 points 3 years ago

Any time I talk about decentralized apps to friends and family I come across as some kind of conspiracy driven weirdo. I do not understand why decentralization comes across as some kind of extreme radical movement. I'm not protesting or anything, everything else just sucks lol

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Catweazle 15 points 3 years ago

@Acester47 @dylan, Reddit by default send userdata to Alphabet (Google), Amazon, ComScore and TowerData (known to use even keylogging to profile users). That is, what you write on Reddit is known by most advertising companies, along with your account data. Enshittification is falling short.

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