how?
It won’t get successful. So, no worries there. And this is a good thing.
Planned obsolescence. Use Lemmy as though one day you aren’t going to anymore and have a replacement lined up. Reddit was the sole source for so long that people got used to it and put up with their enshittification because it was a sole source product. Then Lemmy was made to replace it for people who didn’t want to put up with enshittification, but it will happen here too eventually. So start planning your next move or build it’s replacement now and keep it on standby for when the replacement needs to happen.
As Free Software movement clearly demonstrates, there is only one reliable and reproducible method of preventing enshittification: ability to fork; ability to do things on your own, however you want, without anyone’s approval. However, Fediverse doesn’t grant its users this ability. One can not simply fork an instance and/or a community with all of its data. Even if your instance admins are pretty cool (admins of my instance are pretty cool, just saying!), you still have to rely on their goodwill all the time. And setting up a personal instance doesn’t seem feasible enough to widespread selfhosting…
Prevent corporations from ever gaining foothold here. Even slightest presence should be considered to be similar as to some invasive and rapidly spreading meatmoss and equally disgusting too.
too late.
that is external thing, cant expect to have any control over it in the first place. I think its more like leech than infection point at this point anyway. But if we ever start to just accept it and go “it is what it is” with this too, then that is the first step to things going bad.
One answer is IPO. Reddit took a nosedive so hard that it made the Titanic look like a fantasy.
My main take is; no down votes without a comment is my take. If you don’t like my opinion, tell me why. This will mess up bots because it llm generated answers are becoming easier to discern.
Enshittification happens when the quality of the service becomes second class to some other goal like making money, building digital surveillance or a psyops platform. As long as Lemmy stays open source, that will not happen, since every move towards anything like that would be immediately obvious.
The problem has already been fixed. What needs to be done is keeping it fixed.
Do you mean enshittification as a general term meaning that the overall quality will slip? Because the specific meaning by Cory Doctorow is about centralized commercial platforms. The fediverse isn’t one
Since it is federated and open source, just create a new instance.
With hookers and blackjack
In fact, forget the new instance
As long as it’s not shitty 6:5 blackjack. Bring me that good 3:2 shit.
But you can only split once and no doubling after split.
If there’s no blow im out
I can get behind both of these 🤠
Yeah, run your instance, don’t let shitheads on it, and block shitty instances.
that’s a great idea
self-hosting, smaller more thematically-focused instances, and aggressively defederating any instance that hosts ads or propaganda
Enshittification is not the worry. However we’re extremely vulnerable to spam and dead internet.
The decentralized nature of it already prevents it being enshittified. If one instance turns to shit, others will be made to take its place.
On the other hand, the decentralized nature completely prevents the blocking of scrapers, spam, etc.
It does not prevent either of those things. It just makes it harder to eliminate universally since every instance is ran differently and may or may not have been set up properly with good tools that help stop those things.
If you want to scrape, you just create your own instance
Doesn’t matter how others are configured - at least for scraping
That’s not really scraping, and you can block other instances from caching your instance’s posts.
Tell me how to prevent scraping in a federated setting. I’ll wait.
maybe the devs adding self hosted verification to prevent scraping i dont know
It kinda works like ublock origin where a block list makes the block coverage MUCH faster. Its already happening in some parts of the fediverse. As long as its disclosed, its a very reliable tool.
How do you block something that is scraping the content to train LLMs?
Sort answer you cant (federation). Long answer, you can but with a lot of effort.
You can however fuck with LLMs VERY easily. Poisoning it is relatively easy.
oh great
Just like everything else. Nothing stays unshitty forever.
Very simply, we jump ship from any server that starts down that dark path. Keep it impossible for any single company to exercise any meaningful control over the fediverse.
Enshittification is a result of commercialisation.
The Forumverse cannot be commercialised. If an instance starts showing advertisements, its users will migrate to ones that don’t.
I don’t think this network can enshittify.
A complex example of this is Threads™️
It’s the largest Mastodon interfacing instance (much larger than mastodon.social) otoh Threads is blocked by most instances and actual federated interaction aren’t remotely common.
Don’t become a publically tradable company for starters.
once any social media gets popular it gets awful, because people are awful.
