• Gnorv@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp’s enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music…

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        OK I read the bandcamp thing and… It’s not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?

        Just in case:

        Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification

        None of those things happened with Bandcamp

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          As of today, the revenue share is still the same as before the last acquisitions, right? The entry requirements are the same and the discovery tools aren’t worse? If so, and the issue is with the layoffs and unionization, that’s true for countless other companies, especially in gaming.

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        Yeah, but I still post links to Bandcamp, even though they’ve gone down that path. One day they’ll cross the line, and I’ll start posting links to other services.

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    8 months ago

    Are you using a VPN?

    Is this Chrome or a different browser I don’t recognize?

    Are you affiliated with any communist organization?

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        I’ve heard Reddit is starting to crack down on people using VPNs, which is a real shame because that also means that open information (ie intended by posters/commenters to be universally accessible) will not be.

        Reddit is now protecting “their” intellectual property.

        Ironically, shuttering access is where the profit is to be had, as it gets sold off to Big Data (AI) companies for processing.

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          When I migrated to Lemmy, I left my Reddit account intact - just stopped using it. It included lots of tutorials, guides for things like buying a PlayStation Vita OLED panel, recorded Reddit Talks from the subreddits I moderated, the only source for certain bug fixes, and so on.

          When Reddit started pretending this data belongs to them, and selling it to AI models, I replaced everything with gibberish and removed the comments. They restored a few, specially when they showed up on Google, so then I replaced them again, deleted everything, and deleted the account.

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            I had to redelete some of my comments 3 4 times before they went away for good. I should probably check again in case they came back.

            Edit: Yep, a dozen old posts and comments are back again.

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              The phrase “data governance” is so hosed online. In a better perfect world, you would be able to keep up whatever data you felt like sharing and take down the data you didn’t. (Obviously third party archives could exist regardless, but hopefully you get my point.)

              This whole AI thing could, or at least should, open up conversations about being able to revoke consent in a corporate relationship sense, in the same way you can already revoke consent in a personal relationship sense.

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                Brazil did that. We have a new set of laws called LGPD that allows users to revoke the consent whenever they want - all data ever collected or provided to a service must be deleted. Not turned anonymous, not shared with Facebook, not “under the ToS it’s ours” - deleted.

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                  Heaven knows that ToS would allow companies to kill you unless the law stepped in.

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    well i actually think it’s quite a reasonable measure.

    other websites would’ve locked you out completely if your ip is suspected of being used in a ddos attack, while reddit does provide an option to continue using the website for registered users