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Capitalism (n): see enshittification
@aral I suppose the only upside (for me) is that as these services/companies become more enshittified, the more I’m removing them from my day to day life. Amazon, Google, Microsoft all sacked so far.
@aral Crapitalism
@aral a blog post to think about this, talking a lot about metpores on the blog https://hamishcampbell.com/its-a-term-the-liberals-can-understand-in-this-it-has-limited-to-this-narrow-point-of-view/
@hamishcampbell Hey Hamish, heads up: I’m getting a database error while connecting.
@aral it's mastodon flood attack, I did rebuild the server a month ago so it should recover after the flood cross fingers.
Though @pluralistic has clarified his definition since the post so likely needs an update. I was commenting more on how people were using the term.
You were right about the #DDOS issues with #ActivityPub and WordPress I am finding it hard to keep the blog online with basic sharing and the AP Pugin.
@pfefferle might be good to put out an approximate idea of the server increase to keep a WordPress site working with the #AP plugin?
@hamishcampbell @aral @pluralistic caching :)
Maybe this post by @kev might help you https://kevquirk.com/i-stopped-mastodon-ddosing-me-i-think
@hamishcampbell Enshitification is a popular term, but I agree that it does obfuscate what is really occurring. Anything could become increasingly shit under thermodynamics, whereas #dotcon does indicate that what's occurring is a sort of commercially driven swindle.
@aral If I had looked up the term enshitification, I would have expected it to be a synonym for capitalism.
@aral Perhaps we should be talking more about financialism, less about “capitalism”. Details matter.
The people who put up the money are rarely the same ones who run the business. Moreover, they quickly trade out their interests to the public markets and funds.
The machine has no human operator anymore. Only various technicians who, however badly, work to keep the parts in order.
The dehumanization of productivity (specifically management) is insufficiently examined.
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