Spotify's API is going Pay for Play, starting today. You must have a premium subscription to use it.
Funkwhale, Bandwagon get ready.
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security
Every one of these pushes people to the open web. It's always good news, but we need to be ready.
What do YOU think the Fediverse needs to do to welcome people turned off by the world's most recent #Enshitification story?
As much as I hate posting to #linkedIn aka #stinkedin but when the fraud and deceit is hosted there...
If you are over on that platform, some boosts on my posting regarding the fake job postings by Micro1 would be in order please https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7422681886461808640/
You may have seen the #CISO and other roles posted by an #AI company in Palo Alto named #Micro1
Address: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Note that Micro1 is not hiring themselves but using #LinkedIn under false pretenses to populate their new applicant tracking platform and ingest into their AI. When asked about all this and their approach in their first “Building your career with micro1” session today individuals were kicked out and banned from the #Zoom session.
It is disgusting that companies like this feel they can waste peoples time & portray false pretenses to ingest our time and personal information. I would suggest that if you have started the process with them to invoke the “right to be forgotten” per #CCPA and/or #GDPR.
How horrible is it for getting peoples hopes up just for a bait n switch for their companies gain, in such a horrible hiring climate?
#getFediHired #fedihired #hiring #ATS #respect #enshitification
As much as I hate posting to #linkedIn aka #stinkedin but when the fraud and deceit is hosted there...
If you are over on that platform, some boosts on my posting regarding the fake job postings by Micro1 would be in order please https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7422681886461808640/
You may have seen the #CISO and other roles posted by an #AI company in Palo Alto named #Micro1
Address: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Note that Micro1 is not hiring themselves but using #LinkedIn under false pretenses to populate their new applicant tracking platform and ingest into their AI. When asked about all this and their approach in their first “Building your career with micro1” session today individuals were kicked out and banned from the #Zoom session.
It is disgusting that companies like this feel they can waste peoples time & portray false pretenses to ingest our time and personal information. I would suggest that if you have started the process with them to invoke the “right to be forgotten” per #CCPA and/or #GDPR.
How horrible is it for getting peoples hopes up just for a bait n switch for their companies gain, in such a horrible hiring climate?
#getFediHired #fedihired #hiring #ATS #respect #enshitification
@pluralistic
Maybe just jealous you coined the defining word of the 21st Century?
#enshitification
I get email.
@pluralistic
Maybe just jealous you coined the defining word of the 21st Century?
#enshitification
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.
Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.
Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon sometimes, the best option is to change software packages. Harder to do with the OS.
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.
Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
I’ve learned a great new adjective from the excellent #enshitification book from @pluralistic
Guillotineable
And there are so many arsehole billionaires and presidents you can use it for. Thanks!
I’ve learned a great new adjective from the excellent #enshitification book from @pluralistic
Guillotineable
And there are so many arsehole billionaires and presidents you can use it for. Thanks!
The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copyright-should-not-enable-monopoly
I change my desktop wallpaper often so do a lot of image searching. Sadly, results on nearly any search engine now include a LOT of #AI -generated slop. The amount of slop varies by image subject, but there's still too much for my liking. I created search criteria that would exclude sites with a lot of AI, but ended up with so many sites to exclude that the search criteria became too long to be accepted by the engine. I suppose I'll just use my own photos from now on. #tech #enshitification
https://www.howtogeek.com/nova-launcher-has-a-new-owner-but-its-not-looking-good/
Nova Launcher has been acquired and resurrected, new versions will be rolling out with updates, bug-fixes and..... advertisements.
Yup, it sucks, not only are ads already showing up in the free version, but a dig through the code has revealed a lot of extra callbacks to Facebook & Google for ads and other services
https://www.howtogeek.com/nova-launcher-has-a-new-owner-but-its-not-looking-good/
Nova Launcher has been acquired and resurrected, new versions will be rolling out with updates, bug-fixes and..... advertisements.
Yup, it sucks, not only are ads already showing up in the free version, but a dig through the code has revealed a lot of extra callbacks to Facebook & Google for ads and other services
@HTeuMeuLeu La tech se radicalise. Ca part en vrille, les gens un peu humanistes s'en dégoûtent et partent, ils ne sont plus là pour apporter leur vues et faire contre poids, les plus extrêmes restent et ca part encore plus en vrille…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fabienmarry/115927087065870847
A less reported #enshitification is the enshitification of tech org themselves. As orgs enshitify their products, they lower their ethical and quality standards, and people who care about these leave, so their opinions disappear from the conversation and standard fall further.
A death spiral that won't stop until consumers reject tech in large numbers.
cc @pluralistic
