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"I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices
will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you
experience in your life.
Oh sure, you can tinker in the margins, and you should! Get a repairable
laptop, like the Framework, which is the greatest computer I've ever owned, and
run Linux on it (I use Ubuntu, which is easy to install). You'll spend two
weeks looking around the UI for the thing you need to click on and then you'll
stop noticing it altogether, forever:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/#frame
Access the internet via RSS, and avoid all the algorithmic twiddling and
surveillance that subjects you and yours to the depredations of the worst
people on earth and their feral algorithms:
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/
Give preference to high-security, private, open messaging tools like Signal.
Open an account on a federated social media service, like Mastodon, and make it
a first-class home for your online social life:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes
Do all this! Do more! You'll make your life somewhat better, and in some cases,
much better. But you're not going to fight enshittification this way.
Enshittification is not the result of people making bad choices: it's the
result of bad
policies that produce bad
systems."
Via Rod Mesa and Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
