Magnetic_dud to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoBots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothingdiscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1221arrow-down1imageBots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothingdiscuss.tchncs.deMagnetic_dud to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKonala Koala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·7 months agoSounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.
minus-squarebrian@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agothis just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform
minus-squareInfiniWheel@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoPeople when they learn a new word
minus-squareMagnetic_dudOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoenshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it’s designed for business.
Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.
this just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform
People when they learn a new word
enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot
scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it’s designed for business.