how do we make a world where people have agency over the machines we own and depend on?
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how do we make a world where people have agency over the machines we own and depend on?
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Nora Reed
In response to this postpeople talk about "enshittification" as everything getting worse, which it is. but the really damaging part of it is that we are forced to cede control over our tech and hand it to people who see consumers as exploitable resources without much power to switch to something else
i think if we can expect what we get from kilns, from sewing machines, from bicycles, and apply that to the other things we depend on, we could be in a better place with our relationship to technology
by Nora Reed ;
@nora It's explicitly not *everything*
Only corporate software being used primarily as a way to suck money from consumers as efficiently as possible
Not software written with pride
by Dragon-sided D ;
@nora you’re right though it just increases appreciation of Mastodon all the more. You need to raise your shit shield 🛡️(*Credit coffee with Karen on YouTube) up and fill your life with enprettyfication keep positive Nora.
by AAA365 ;
@nora sometimes I think people say "enshitification" when we'd all be better off calling nazification.
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Larry Garfield
In response to this post@nora Free Software, and then some. RMS has been right about everything (software related anyway), which sucks.
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Tim Abell
In response to this post@nora read this
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/942560.Free_Software_Free_Society
@nora
you are not alone in this thought or this fight.
Stallman was early in seeing this coming.
I'm glad you've noticed too. The more people that know and support open movements the better.
Vote with your money, support "open" projects instead of closed. Choose android over iOS, choose linux over windows/mac, read and understand the licences and their implications (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache).
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Janis
In response to this post@nora Go off grid. Granted, it's not the whole world, but it's yours.
The problem is, in part, support. It's MUCH more expensive to sit on the phone and coach someone through a repair, as it is to stock complex spare parts and design products that part out.
The more complex things get, the harder it is to bring people into those processes, to get them up-to-speed on the mechanics of all of it, when what they need to be doing is what they already know how to do.
@janisf lmao ill get right on that
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