To stop enshittification, we all need to chase away any attempt to capitalize on the internet and get back to the roots of preventing data scarcity. Anyone running an ad or promoting some product should be chased out. Their product stolen and copied and shared until these people know they’re not welcome. It would have prevented all of the enshittification had pewdiepies and Joe Rogans and Mr beasts were treated as the time vampires they are. It’s not just simple advertising that we could turn off. It turned into a massive machine that stole our data, built profiles, created digital addiction tools and tracked all our movements just to sell us things.

Mods aggressively delete them so you wouldn’t. Moderation is out of control because it’s essentially robbing us of seeing diversity of opinions.

What about in the opposite direction. Isn’t AI a tool that can be used to create, analyze and research. Which is why I think it’s pushed very hard for the left to alienate themselves from it. It gives anyone who embraced it a big advantage.

That’s why quantity is important online. They can’t suppress it all.

It just surprises me that people put more effort trying to get AI to quote Hitler than they do trying to fight for something like this.

Why is there this asymmetry of effort between the political factions.

Hey, do you guys want to organize and concentrate memes and content to push back against the growing group of nazis that spread by creating content and memes.

No no no that type of organization is impossible without the funding that is on the right. It’s silly.

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We should stop pretending piracy is some fringe problem instead of a pressure valve. When artists and creators use the internet primarily to sell and self-promote, they’re still participating in the same system even if they’re not Facebook or Spotify. Scale doesn’t change the outcome.

We can’t have the internet we claim to want and treat it like a digital busking space. Those two ideas don’t coexist. Once monetization enters, everything starts bending toward the same endgame, tracking, ads, artificial walls, data collection, subscriptions. It always converges there.

Content creators are part of the enshittification problem. Piracy is a stopgap response to it. A way people push back against a system that turns sharing into commerce. It’s unfortunate, but it’s the result of trying to force a market model onto a space that was built for sharing ideas and collaboration, not sales.

I get why this feels personal, but I think there’s a deeper problem with the framing. The internet was never meant to be anyone’s marketplace. It was meant to be a place for people to share ideas and work freely, not a storefront.

The moment we decided the internet should function like a sales platform, artificial scarcity became inevitable. That’s when art turned into “content,” and creativity got optimized for algorithms instead of people. Freedom and monetization can’t really coexist online the business model always wins.

Back in the day this just meant that people would mobilize and flood the platform with pro Palestinian content just to troll.

I don’t think people who aren’t cheating get to compete at that level so they wouldn’t get the chance to ask. They don’t get the opportunity

I agree with what you said about the work and effort part but why not just use the methods that are proven to work which are none of those things you mentioned?

Oh shit!

This is exactly how the MAGA movement consolidated. Crazy to watch it on the left.

Why wouldn’t they? We all took ourselves offline. What other content would be left for them to be exposed to?

Not engaging will also impact the algorithm since it’s feeding off attention to sell advertising. If we all refuse to engage that will weigh it heavily towards the views of people left online who are spreading a different opinion which is to spread and engage with the online world. That’s how they get their information across.

Only if you want to tell others like you to get off of it. This way people not like you have unfettered access to eyes an ears of younger generations who will eventually be in charge and have zero reference to any of the issues you care about but will know a tremendous number of views you oppose. That seems to be the pattern with a lot of us lately. Convincing each other to get offline. Big push for it. The future generation will be raised by TPUSA like we were all raised by school house rock

This comment is fucking insane lol

Isn’t it more like they’re comparing all the hamburgers and everything else you have eating since you were born?

That’s what they’re doing with AI enegry usages isn’t it? I thought it was including the training which is where the greatest costs come from vs just daily running.

I would say the argument is that they feel they’re paying more for people who don’t deserve it. That the government and these businesses are constantly subsidizing by taking their pay cheque and handing it to people who refuse to work or decided to do drugs or making other bad life choices. The right tends to view things at an individual level whereas the left view things as a group. Both are right and wrong. If you’re paid $60,000 a year and some goes to a safe injection site, more goes to some carbon tax that nobody is really tracking, more goes to some dark slush fund nobody knows about. Over the years we all just get bitter and angry

For me it’s because you all never went far enough. It’s not about data privacy. It was always about data scarcity. You all wanted content creators to get paid while also using that same platform to keep your stuff private. Except the way content creators get paid is working for websites and corporations that steal your data and create profiles that information brokers can trade amongst themselves to build larger profiles where they don’t even need you to use any of their systems just to build your profile. But you like random bearded guy that makes cat comics. We should have always been hostile to anyone using the internet to create content in order to sell it.

I love this idea when in reality they probably have some Israeli 3rd party that they use that can just pop any system in under an hour regardless of any protection you think you have.

No I didn’t. Which is why I’m asking.