unshittified.club

@djaboss Interesting! Makes sense. I think visual representations are the way to go. Visual > exponential number > indeterminate noun

hallelujah!

So check this out @skeet . These are the current overrides I have set. They allow me to override any css i want, so what i did was i went through the site briefly in chrome, saw a few things that looked like they could be improved, right clicked on those elements and chose inspect, then copied the selector, pasted it in chatgpt and told it: override this selectors color with light brown, or make the text in this selector bigger, etc. then i tweaked its output. If you gave me a list of overrides like this back i would be happy to try them out. Gemini should work fine for this too: .brand-container { background-color: #e9dfd3 !important; } [component="siteTitle"] h1 { color: #2f5e43 !important; font-size: 1.25rem !important; /* adjust size */ line-height: 1.2 !important; } .btn-close { filter: brightness(0) saturate(100%) invert(33%) sepia(11%) saturate(1122%) hue-rotate(96deg) brightness(92%) contrast(90%) !important; }

Alright, I figured this one out. It looks like by default the board was showing GDPR registration process. That's the higher level of explicity that Europe require regarding authentication process. Most of us never see this kind of thing in the US, unless we use a VPN. Anyway, the registration process shouldn't be so scary any more. No, we will not do anything with your data and I guarantee that all we're really recording is IP address to ban bad actors like Chinese spambots.

@Soteria Mom and Pops are over… for now. The ecosystem has to change to support them, I agree. I guess my point is as long as there are competing businesses even if they are just a few, we can screw with them heavily by collectively boycotting one of them for 3 months. Especially if its a scheduled thing and not reactive. Not unless they meet our demands, which initially we know they will not.

@ilam.fields me too. Having a name for this phenomenon with a clear, common definition is a public service when these concepts sometimes feel too broad and abstract for most people to get (and keep) their heads around.

Talking about the parties directly may be a dead end tbh. There is so much mental baggage, bias and fatigue associated with the parties, focusing on issues and ideas seems the right strategy and making a conscious effort to keep the parties as a secondary or tertiary data point.

I like visual representations for sure @skeet lets always have a visual. Needs a big bold title too to catch the eye. Maybe we can create a template for this?

Can you guys tell me if this resonates? Help me wordsmith or blow it up: “discussing broken and effective social systems and how we make things better, on a website that won’t monetize and become a broken social system”

Heres a nice rant and thread cataloguing the litany of shittified annoyances we are dealing with: https://www.reddit.com/r/enshittification/s/JiNrKEMqZ8

One thing i keep coming back to is that we need to take this country back from Wall Street. Companies should not be putting people’s retirement in 401ks. They should have pension funds and banks should have to offer high interest savings accounts. This seems like a big step (back) in the right direction to me.

This new version of the board has the concept or remote categories and federated content. Going to look into that because maybe other people are using it for similar things. Im mulling over ideas about using web vs something like discord, and also if both things can live in harmony without bifurcating a community. Distributed anonymous systems are less corruptable, but hosting our own server(s) is also less corruptable.

Btw, I will change my regular user name to be something more abstract so this board doesnt seem like me rattling my own cage or celebrating myself or whatever. Tacky! I will keep this account reserved for admin type stuff.

This site is intended to give users a place to discuss the future. A site that will not turn into a pile of shit. This site will never monetize with advertising. As it scales, we will divide the board into smaller regional boards and pay all server costs with private donations. We will maintain this site as a group for this group! I’ve run an instance of nodebb (the lovely open source forum software which this board runs on) for a small community for a decade. That other board never earned a penny and we like it that way. No ads, no federated authentication. No bullshit. This board will focus on educating society about the forces that are dragging us into the Enshittocene. However, I hope you make meaningful friendships along the way, and this experience should not pretend to be linear. We are better together. A good internet can be done! I ask for your trust and lets build something distributed that will not fail.

Please post any links to other forums facillitating societal discourse with others.

In a system dominated by corporate interests, those who do not have profit-driven agendas have their own set of strengths. It is important to acknowledge and leverage them: We do what makes sense, not limited by profitability and increasingly amoral algorithms. What makes sense resonates with people. They know it when they see it. Many of the things we seek do not require large sums of money. They only require communication. To overtly limit communication will be easily identified as inhumane, so corporations divide us through more insidious methods. But we have a global communication network that requires no middleman and can be reached instantly. And so we are here.