Enshitification
Welcome to Enshitification
A community for everyone who didn't realise it was spelled 'enshittification'.
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
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like.. all apps?
email? Browser? Chat? umm . . . weather? They do, y'know, run in linux.
Now linux on a phone in the first place - fair enough, it's really really unlikely.
are you taking the piss? or do you just not think people want to be able to run the stuff they're used to?
if i wanted a feature phone i'd buy a fucking second hand nokia
What the fuck is so special it doesn't run on linux?
Someone mentioned an OTP app, or password app - okay, but there's many on linux, so that'd just be a preference for whatever it was. It would have to be something that isn't browser-based. So - what's so unforgivably irreplacable on android that people can't live without?
You're in a thread about setting up a custom rom and you're saying there's something so unique, so proprietary that it can't be experienced in a linux environment - fine. What is it? Microsoft Word? AutoCAD? phone versions, presumably? I dunno.
I can't think of anything, but you're asking if I'm taking the piss because it's incothievable anyone could be wondering what's so irreplaceable about android. So - what's the app you can't live without?