#enshittification

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I rarely view Youtube videos on my Android phone. But I do view them a lot on my Samsung S9 Android tablet.

I have NOT used the official Youtube app for years. I stopped using it when ads started taking over the interface. I use the Brave browser on my Android tablet to view Youtube vids.

This eve, to try out some new Gemini features on my new Pixel 9 Pro, I launched the Youtube app.

HOLY CRAP, IT IS ABSOLUTELY A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE in terms of UI and getting to content you want.

Ad, after ad, after ad, after short, after ad, and more ad placements, and still more ads.

How does ANYONE still use this complete app? It's hard to believe an app could be worse than Instagram or Facebook for ads and unfriendly UI, but yup, Youtube's app is that.

So... do what …

→ Bluesky and enshittification (by @pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

“I would like to use Bluesky. They've done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on and ranking that I truly admire, and I've got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.”

“My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me from danger I've sailed into too many times before.”

voilà, depuis hier sous Electre NG, depuis 1h à fouiller les paramètres et encore une fois un très beau cas d'enshitiffication : oh oui c'est tout beau, mais impossible d'avoir un affichage compact, de personnaliser ses colonnes, de faire des en-têtes avec ses données de commandes... les trucs sympa pour gérer nos commande,s voyez... Vous avez mis combien de temps à pondre ça rappelez-moi ?

This, re: BlueSky from @Mikal! read, re-read, save. Précis:
•current Bluesky cheerleading = meh
• BSky is not federated
•™funded by venture capital who expect payback
• Apps begin free, to _farm engagement_.
• $€¥£izing begins once they kill off alternatives
• $€¥£iz = ads, choices, data, propaganda, sale to an oligarch
• FB, 🐦, TikTok all "exist as landlords to extract value from our social interactions online. They do not care about us."
• "code is politics on the internet"

Screenshot of actual Facebook essay by @Mikal, from here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1WRcY3GQrE/ Resources Mikal cites, for further reading: Below are two articles I easily found talking about why Bluesky is not really what many of you are claiming it is. The first one is technical and wonky and the second one (more accessible) comparing different sites. https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won https://aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748

El trabajo de Rachel Plotnick es muy interesante. La llamada "rebotonización" es un tema de discusión entre empresas de electrodomésticos, coches y electrónica, por diferentes motivos, entre ellas cierto "agotamiento" de la supremacía de la pantalla táctil para todo (incl cierta de la UX)

Rachel Plotnick es investigadora especializada en interfaces, y tiene libros sobre el rol de los botones y palanquitas

https://spectrum.ieee.org/touchscreens
https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/people/profile.html?p=raplotni

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

@pluralistic 's words on Bluesky and are, to me, true.

These two paragraphs say everything about why I can't trust Bluesky to always have good intentions:

'But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the …