#Enshitification

@degroof.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Visit Steve DeGroof's Shop! I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

I'm guessing some readers are switching e-readers due to the recent #Kindle #enshitification. If you bought one of my #books on Kindle and need a DRM-free copy in another format, DM me.

If you *haven't* bought one of my books yet, you can get DRM-free copies here:
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ChiefGyk3D

@chiefgyk3d.com

1 day ago

Synology's Bad Move: Enshitification and Customer Trust Lost #shorts Broadcom's VMware acquisition and Synology's recent decisions are alienating customers. Businesses and home users are migrating to alternatives like Proxmox due to unfair licensing and a disregard for

Synology's making some moves that are ruffling feathers. 😬 Customers are looking elsewhere! Find out what's happening and why. New video now! #Synology #Enshitification #Proxmox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8EqIMLPBnM

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jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺

@jd.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

Original post on todon.eu

just the phrase 'pivot away from newspaper-focus' makes me depressed.

AP/UPI and similar old style 'just the facts' journalism (while they are not without institutional bias!) are the life blood of Internet conversations and debates. If they disappear or fall victim to #Enshitification – we are […]

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DocConnor

@docconnor.bsky.social

1 day ago

Elderly lady at Auspost very confused by a scam parcel pick-up text. Staff could have been a bit nicer about it instead of making her feel like an idiot. #enshitification #ageism

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~SR~

@slipscale.bsky.social

2 days ago

A picture of a chocolate easter egg inside its box. The packaging meant to hold the egg in place is wedged in haphazardly and chocolates have been thrown loose into the bottom of the box.

Amazing quality control from #Guylian. Was this packed by the apprentice? Padding that's doing nothing to hold the egg in place and a handful of chocolates in wrappers that don't actually fit them thrown in as an afterthought. This is one of the pricier eggs at Sainsburys.

#Enshitification

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@herzog1.bsky.social

2 days ago

#enshitification

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@coffeeaddict416.bsky.social

2 days ago

The ‘enshittification’ of tech: When progress turns into piracy YouTube video by CBC News: The National

#Enshitification. Fuck Meta

youtube.com/shorts/lS7cU...

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@exploraran.bsky.social

4 days ago

Bluesky's algorithm is flooding our news feeds with pet stories. Is this linked to the new venture funding round?

Enshitification is on its way. Mastodon is an alternative.

#socialmedia
#algorithm
#enshitification

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Dr J Warr

@warrcrim.bsky.social

5 days ago

Today I coined(???) the phrase #Scatocene - by this i mean to refer to a new epoch, beyond the #anthropocene, where we have allowed #TechBarons to usher in an age of #enshitification.

It is defined by a headlong cognitive surrender into technological subservience and a feculent info-ecology!

#AI

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hector

@commentarium.eu

5 days ago

Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?

Jó hát az #enshitification csimborasszója mikor az #ArtemisII küldetés közben elhanzik hogy elromlott a #Microsoft #Outlook
🤣🤣🤣

#microslop

www.wired.com/story/artemi...

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Bella @ Beguile Thy Sorrow

@beguilethysorrow.bsky.social

5 days ago

Just like the Hersheys candy products that haven’t been using real chocolate 🍫 but instead used cheaper vegetable oil concoctions. Thankfully they say they are going back to real chocolate by 2027 but I guess only time will tell 🫠

#enshitification

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Barijohn

@barijohn.bsky.social

5 days ago

Well Alexa plus lasted a few hours before turning it off! Apparently it listens for all of your set up routine words, not just the wake word.

Can fook off with that!

#Enshitification #Alexaplus

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Grumpy Scientist

@grumpy-scientist.bsky.social

6 days ago

I am old enough to remember that what we call "subscription model" now used to be called "ransomware" before. What we call "updates" now used to be called "spyware" back then. That's why you no longer hear about the need to buy anti-spyware software anymore.

#enshitification

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Mike Jeff

@fellaroonie.bsky.social

1 week ago

Really feeling the #enshitification of the internet these past few days. The #AI bots should be the ones jumping through hoops, not humans. If I have to "identify the pictures of bikes" every time I want to order tacos, I'll just go back to speaking to other humans.

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JasonHurtsLots

@lotshurts.bsky.social

1 week ago

Sign in - Google Accounts

CEO has asked us to trial chat.google.com

... hoo boy. This is the epitomine of Google "enterprise" products. Unfinished with zero polish.

#enshitification

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Ol’ Tizzy

@ol-tizzy.bsky.social

1 week ago

Dear #Apple

Why are messages from blocked senders now appearing in my inbox?

WHAT PART OF BLOCKED DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!

#enshitification #iOS

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Keli W.

@keliwestgate.bsky.social

1 week ago

tried to mail something to the States the other day from canada and was told I had to scan a QR code, download an app, take pictures of each item in the package and the app had an unknown amount of "subscription fees" that I'd need to give them 30 days notice to stay paying. #enshitification

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Josep M. Ganyet 🦋

@ganyet.bsky.social

1 week ago

L' #enshitification del @doctorow.pluralistic.net és això.

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Alexandrine Kantor

@alexakantor.bsky.social

1 week ago

I don't remember what podcast it was but 75% sure that @rostaylor.bsky.social @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com were involved & was discussing what #enshitification could look like for podcasts.

Videos, when they also produce a video content it decreases the quality of the audio (interactions etc)

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Don Brown

@gettheflick.bsky.social

1 week ago

So Apple, where did the "Stop Import" on Photos go? I've imported 6,115 photos from my phone and still haven't found it.

Take your time. It's not like I'm going to stop it now. I've made it to last Christmas. #Enshitification

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MediaFaro

@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.org

1 week ago

‘We can have a better digital world’: A global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media. by Anna Desmarais — Euronews

‘We can have a better digital world’: A global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media.

A platform becomes ‘enshitified’ when it introduces paid features or subscriptions that makes a user’s experience worse than it u…

#SocialMedia #Tech #Enshitification #Norway #CoryDoctorow #Platforms

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Patrick

@ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours. Last month, I closed out the Warner Bros. bidding war saga with this line: > _"Whether it's Netflix or Paramount holding the keys to Warner Bros., that part doesn't change. We're still paying $18/month for a streaming service that drops three episodes of a show and then makes us wait six months for the rest. The consolidation is happening, the prices will keep going up, and the content will keep getting spread thinner."_ > I didn't think it would take less than a month to be proven right. On Thursday, March 26, Netflix quietly updated their help page with new pricing across every single plan. No press release. No announcement. Just: here are your new prices, effective today for new subscribers, rolling out to existing members over the coming weeks. ## What You're Paying Now Here's the damage: Plan Old Price New Price Change Standard with Ads $7.99/mo $8.99/mo +$1 Standard (no ads) $17.99/mo $19.99/mo +$2 Premium (4K, 4 streams) $24.99/mo $26.99/mo +$2 Extra Member (ad-supported) $5.99/mo $6.99/mo +$1 Extra Member (ad-free) $8.99/mo $9.99/mo +$1 This is the **second price hike in just over a year.** The last one hit in January 2025. If you want Netflix without ads, the cheapest you can get it is now **$19.99 a month.** If you want 4K, you're looking at **nearly $30.** ## Netflix's Statement Is a Work of Art in Corporate Non-Language Netflix's statement to Variety: _"As we deliver more value to our members, we are updating our prices to enable us to reinvest in quality entertainment and improve their experience by updating our prices."_ They said "updating our prices" **twice** in the same sentence. That's not an accident. That's what happens when your PR team has to explain a price increase without using the word "increase." The "more value" argument is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Yes, Netflix has added video podcasts, live events, and sports content. They've also been spending $20 billion on content in 2026 alone — up from $18 billion in 2025. But nobody asked for video podcasts. And the core experience — dropping partial seasons, algorithmic recommendations that feel like they're actively avoiding what you want, the endless scroll — hasn't materially improved. ## Let's Talk About the $2.8 Billion Here's the part I can't get past. Netflix just walked away from the Warner Bros. acquisition last month and **collected a $2.8 billion termination fee** in the process. Netflix CFO Spence Neumann stood at an investor conference and said — and I want you to really hear this — _"Now we move forward, and we move forward with $2.8 billion in our pocket that we didn't have a few weeks ago."_ Cool. Great. Terrific. Now they've turned right around and raised prices on every subscriber in America. I'm not suggesting there's a direct causal link — the price hike was telegraphed in Netflix's Q4 earnings guidance in January, before the deal collapsed. But the optics of walking away from an $82.7 billion acquisition with a $2.8 billion consolation prize and then immediately coming for your customers' wallets next billing cycle... that's a specific kind of audacity. ## The Ad-Supported "Escape Hatch" Is Getting More Expensive Too This is the part that should actually annoy you. When Netflix launched its ad-supported tier, the pitch was pretty clear: if you can't stomach the price increases on the premium tiers, here's a cheaper option. Accept some ads, pay less. Fine. That tier just went from $7.99 to **$8.99.** A $1 increase on a plan that still shows you the same ads — research from Parks Associates found that seven in ten viewers say the same ads repeat too often on streaming services. You're paying more for the same annoying experience. (And if you've been following the broader war on users who just want to watch something without being monetized to death, this pattern should feel very familiar.) And the gap between ad-supported and ad-free is now **$11 a month.** If you don't want ads, that's $11 extra every single month. The "cheap" tier isn't a path down anymore — it's just a slower path to the same destination. ## You're Also Paying More for a Worse Viewing Experience The price is only part of the story. The _product_ has also gotten worse in ways that never make the press release. **The binge model is quietly dying.** Netflix built its entire identity on dropping full seasons at once. That was the deal — you pay, you watch, you don't have to wait. Now they're increasingly releasing in batches or on weekly schedules. You get half a season, then wait a month for the back half. Or you get one episode a week like it's 1987 and you have rabbit ears. They didn't announce this as a policy change. They just started doing it. **The gap between seasons is getting longer.** Stranger Things is the most egregious example — fans waited over three years between Season 4 (July 2022) and the final season (November 2025). A show that's been running since 2016, and it took nearly a decade to produce five short seasons. Now, plenty of people have figured out the workaround: cancel, wait for the drop, resubscribe, binge, cancel again. Netflix knows you're doing this. They've _always_ known. And their response hasn't been to shorten the gaps or reward loyalty — it's been to make the content calendar unpredictable enough that you're never quite sure when it's safe to cancel without missing something. The churn game is a feature, not a bug. **And if a show survives long enough to get traction, there's a decent chance it gets cancelled at Season 3.** Not because it failed — sometimes right when it's hitting its stride. Netflix has developed a well-documented pattern of greenlighting shows, letting them build an audience over two or three seasons, and then axing them right around the point where they'd have to start paying the cast and crew significantly more. The show doesn't get an ending. The audience doesn't get closure. _Santa Clarita Diet._ Three seasons. A genuinely weird, funny, beloved show — Season 3 scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes — with a cliffhanger ending that will never be resolved. Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant spent three seasons building something people actually cared about, and Netflix pulled the plug right before the story paid off. Creator Victor Fresco found out his show was cancelled while sitting in the edit suite — an assistant producer walked in to tell him the sets were being dismantled. That's how he heard. Fresco had deliberately ended Season 3 on a cliffhanger to try to force Netflix's hand — _"We didn't want to make it easier for them to cancel us,"_ he said. It didn't matter. They booked the subscriber acquisition value from the marketing push, counted the streams, and sent someone to tear down the sets. The fans are still out there, years later, knowing they'll never find out what happened. That's not a content strategy. That's using your audience as a resource and discarding them when the math changes. ## And Then There's the Chef's Kiss That Ties the Whole Thing Together In 2017, Netflix posted a tweet that became something of a brand identity statement: _"Love is sharing a password."_ They meant it. CEO Reed Hastings said the same year that password sharing was _"a positive thing, not a negative thing."_ For years, sharing your Netflix login with a kid at college, a parent across town, or a new partner was practically a cultural ritual. Netflix knew. Netflix encouraged it. Netflix built an audience of over 100 million password-sharing households on the back of that goodwill. Then in 2023, they killed it. Suddenly sharing a password was a terms-of-service violation, and adding someone outside your household would cost you extra — on top of the subscription you were already paying. The tweet is still out there. The goodwill it was built on is not. So to recap: they got you hooked on a generous, flexible product. Raised prices. Cracked down on the sharing they told you was love. Switched from full season drops to batches and weekly episodes. Cancelled the shows you cared about before they could finish their stories. Made the content calendar unpredictable enough that you can't even strategically cancel anymore. And now they want two more dollars a month. ## The Pattern Is the Point Netflix isn't an outlier. Every major streamer has raised prices in the past two years. But Netflix's pace is worth documenting. Netflix's Standard plan history, roughly: * **2019:** ~$12.99/month * **2022:** $15.49/month * **Early 2025:** $17.99/month * **Today:** $19.99/month The mid-tier plan has gone up roughly **54% in five years.** Meanwhile, Netflix's Q4 2024 earnings set subscriber records. The company is projecting $50+ billion in revenue for 2026. They're not raising prices because they're struggling. They're raising prices because they can. ## What You Can Actually Do Honestly? Not a lot. Netflix has the content. They know they have the content. Your leverage is cancellation, and they also know that most people who cancel come back. But if you're paying for Premium and only using two screens — drop to Standard. If you haven't audited your streaming subscriptions lately, now is a good time. The average household holds nearly six streaming subscriptions; that's a lot of $2 increases adding up across a lot of services. Or don't. They've already factored your inertia into their revenue projections. That's the most honest thing I can tell you. _Existing subscribers will get email notice one month before the new prices hit their billing cycle. New subscribers see the new prices starting today._ **Got thoughts on this mess? Find me on Mastodon at****@ppb1701@ppb.social**

Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours.

blog.ppb1701.com/netflix-got-2-8-billion-...

#blog #netflix #streaming #streamingwars #bigtech #userhostile #enshitification

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Ji Fu

@fu.hostux.social.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

#Enshitification has hit the #MLB For years one of the most impressive things about mlb.tv is that you could pick different fees (like the National TV Broadcast, and the Tigers radio play-by-play) and it synced up 100%. We'll it's #openingDay and that doesn't work right any more.

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Kalle Mustonen

@mustone.bsky.social

1 week ago

Spotifyn etusivu on käyttöliittymänä sietämätön oksennus, jista ei ole mitään mahdollisuutta bongata kiinnostavaa musiikkia. On semi-maksullisia kirjoja, videopodcastejä, paskoja hittipop-listauksia.
#enshitification
#spotify

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