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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 67 points 7 months ago

Seventy-five fucking US dollars per month? To hear about how the ruination of apps is good, actually? I can remember when yearly subscriptions to magazines were like $12, fuck's sake.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 7 months ago

It's a magazine for people for whom 75 dollaridoos is less than their daily brunch expenses

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 56 points 7 months ago

Is it bad?

$75 per month?

Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' bad.

This feels like the economic equivalent of climate change deniers promoting forest fires as, exclusively and inherently, a good thing because they 'make all that new growth' after this-is-fine

[-] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago

I truly cannot wait to see how evolution adapts all the trees to being constantly on fire.

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Financial Times actually as good articles which is why I read them on archive. No way I'm paying for the newspaper of the ruling class, not even if I could afford it

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 32 points 7 months ago

If your cherry pie has even a little bit poop in it, it’s a poop cake. Not hard to grasp.

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

now hang on a minute, how did poop turn a pie into a cake though?

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago
[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

So really it's a fiber cake and fiber is neither good nor bad.

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 7 points 7 months ago

Sorry I got my British in the way.

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

I thought it was a meme edit...

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Hahaha you wish. internet-delenda-est

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

75$ per month?

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's in the name.... "enshittification"...

Put this shit into dunk_tank...

Edit: to the article writer, not the poster...

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

put ur fase in teh dunktank LMAO GOTTEM

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

f*** you, im takin' you wtih me angery

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

^AAAAAA^AAAAAA~AAAAAA~

[-] nasezero@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

$75 for a Financial Times subscription?! Why spend that much when for just $10 a month, I'll hold you down, put a funnel in your ear, and squeeze pudding directly into your skull think-about-it

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

They can charge that much because their entire audience is in the "what could a banana cost, 10 dollars?" demographic

[-] nasezero@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

You're right, I should add a $30 fee for the funnel

[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

mostly unrelated but i hate the phrase enshittification. it's so ugly and reddit-esque. why can't we just call it content decay or something like that instead

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 months ago

why can’t we just call it content decay or something like that instead

It's also called "platform decay" sometimes

[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

i had a feeling i was subconsciously stealing that from somewhere, thank you

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 7 months ago

Because breaking "civil" tone gives it impact.

Everyone in the US of a certain age remembers the fried-egg anti-drug ad (and perhaps the even more aggressive follow on a few years later) exactly because it took a much bolder tone than typical messaging on the subject.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Yeah but it isnt breaking civil tone, its as bad as ‘what in the cinnamon toast fuck’

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

fried-egg anti-drug ad

Oh right, the ableist ad that explicitly implied that people who take drugs are unintelligent brain fried losers, wasn't that in the same era where they told kids to "just say no"? It didn't break the civil tone at all. Stigmatizing drug use was the civil tone back then. Treating people who use drugs with dignity was seen in the popular media as "enabling" (spoiler alert: it still is seen as that).

Enshittification doesn't break the civil tone at all, you're just whining in a blogpost or bad news article about your favorite nonfree app choosing profit over you when they literally all do that.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think people remember that ad for it having a "bolder tone" but rather because it was so absurd and unrelated to actual drug use in any way (except that I have seen people high as a kite re-enact that commercial and laugh hysterically, that's the only connection I've seen.)

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

I'm surprised we don't call it rug-pull.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 8 points 7 months ago

what about "shrabooganism"?

[-] D61@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Not paying 75 a month for a one word article that says, "Yes."

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Who's to say?

Apparently shareholders in those apps' publishers who own media orgs! Thanks FT very-smart

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

This is a fair price. If the article can tell you if spending $75 a month on this is bad, reading it could save you as much as $75 a month!

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

I did 4 motorcycles to access the advice link any it sent me a 5th. I don't want to look at any more scooters! You're wrong! Wrong!

Ok rant aside does that site hate vpns?

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Beyond parody.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

I mean... They're not wrong. Enshittification of apps (and every other aspect of daily life) is in fact positive to the people a publication like the Financial Times is written for. It sucks ass for the rest of us but for them it means exciting new revenue flows.

That's the good thing about the business press, they are much more honest when they're training to themselves then when they are talking to the proles.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

Wow, I clicked the 2nd link to take psychic damage and I never got the paywall message. I guess that BPC (bypass paywall) addon for firefox actually worked for once.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

You did it. You solved enshittification. Thank you!

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

But think of all the money that could be made!

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Market forces cannot solve every problem, but they can do a lot. And they work much better if users are free to come and to go. Everything in a market economy has the potential to be enshittified: the taxi company can be late every time; your local bistro can serve you microwaved ready meals; the coffee shop can double its prices. They don’t, because they know you’ll leave and never come back. There’s a lesson in that for the platforms — and those who regulate them.

Hot take but the people who use the term "Enshittification" are annoying as fuck. It's the equivalent of saying: "I trusted proprietary software and now it bit me in the ass, I'm going to throw a temper tantrum." Wow, who knew that in a capitalist society that capitalists would choose profit over well-being and the inherent power struggle of nonfree software is the vehicle of abuse. Stop whining about your favorite silicon valley slop not being kind to you, they don't give a shit. The guy who invented the term isn't even a marxist, he's some Canadian white guy who writes sci-fi.

Either read Free Software, Free Society and apply it to your own life (maybe even liberate your computing right now!) or accept that no one cares if you cry enshittification.

Enshittifcation more like football-lucy football-charlie-brown

Hot take over. internet-delenda-est

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

$75/mo for this garbage?????? That's how much they're paying?

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