Here's my take on the #enshittification of internet technology over the 2010s, based on the word @pluralistic coined. I've added "developer enshittification" to the mix (see: React). https://cybercultural.com/p/enshittification/
However, I do end on a note of optimism: the decentralized web as represented by the fediverse, Mastodon and potentially Bluesky. "It's a new world for those who have chosen to leave the Enshittocene behind them. Won't you join us?"
@ricmac @timbray so, you say that Mastodon is the biggest app built on ActivityPub. I assume you're measuring by number of users and not lines of code or screen size.
Is this still true? Threads is closing in on 300M MAUs. Some percentage of them have Fediverse sharing enabled. If it's even 5%, that's much larger than existing Mastodon user base. And Flipboard has 150M registered users and I think they're all on the Fediverse.
@evan @timbray honestly I don't count Threads as being part of the fediverse any more, since they haven't enabled two-way federation. If/when they do, then (IMHO anyway) they will be part of the fediverse. Flipboard is a different matter, because they do support the fediverse in good faith. But would you say it's a full fediverse app, on the level of Mastodon?
@evan @ricmac @timbray I think a fair litmus test for whether something is a fediverse app would be if, moderation reasons nonewithstanding, you could follow your cosocial.ca account from it and vice versa. This is true for Mastodon, and true for Flipboard, but not currently true for Threads. I don’t think it’s a fallacy to think that.
Scotsmen on Threads also cannot use federation as it is not available in the EU
@laurenshof @Gargron @evan ah, but we in the UK are not part of the EU (sadly).
ah, youre right, UK got access over the summer, I missed that
