Oct 10, 2026, 12:30 AMEnshittification is the intentional degradation of products as companies shift focus from pleasing consumers to maximizing profits for shareholders.
The Norwegian Consumer Council hate enshittification and they're using humour to fight it.
🎥 @newslab.no
@dbattistella And on that note: https://youtu.be/GXc1RhE0gAs?is=i0IgDx9cfv_cHlnw
@dalstroka
Powerful.
However: CW for a shock at 3'54''.
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@dalstroka @dbattistella YouTube not letting me watch the video unless I sign in. Locked garden
@donamasta @dbattistella Not sure it's youtubes fault....it's open to me.
@dalstroka @dbattistella I'm using brave browser so let's put it another way YouTube not letting me view the video if I successfully block it from tracking me.
@donamasta @dalstroka @dbattistella enshittified?
@dbattistella Way waaaaay too long. But good!
@dbattistella big What we do in the Shadows vibes, love it
Oct 11, 2026, 9:50 PM@mormund 💯
@dbattistella I need that scythe for the end of the month.
Oct 11, 2026, 9:46 PM@gulfie 😂
@dbattistella The YouTube videos are glorious.
Why not talking about the digital elephant in the room:
➡️ A completely absurd, dysfunctional and competition-averse "intellectual property right" (#IPR) called #copyright
that not only belittles owners of smart gadgets to simple, remote controlled users of things they paid for: The IPR enables others to deliver software based sabotage - enshittification as well as private/state-ordered surveillance. And the betrayers can lie on us since we are disabled/disallowed to re-engineer.
@dbattistella , there is a link in the video, to https://forbrukerradet.no/shortlife/ . If I understand correctly, they are a commercial company and they made the video, right?
Oct 10, 2026, 5:34 PM@vazhnov @dbattistella No. A Consumer Council is a public organisation.
Oct 10, 2026, 12:41 PMOkay but this has me feeling really bad for Death.
Oct 11, 2026, 9:45 PM@venya Same! It looked sad and lonely at the end 😭
Oct 14, 2026, 2:29 AM@dbattistella @venya i thought the guy was gonna die when he touched her 😭
@dbattistella that's #crapitalism 101
@dbattistella
> Enshittification
Or, I don't use the word that way. I use it when something on the Internet just doesn't work correctly.
Like when I want to purchase something and I can't create an account.
Go visit Trump!
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Full-width videos, not cropped vertically. 4 and 3 minutes respectively.
@jbiserkov @dbattistella I think it's somewhat ironic that the enshittified YouTube basically mandates censoring the word SHITTY in the thumbnail in order to avoid punishment from the algorithm
Oct 16, 2026, 12:16 AM@elias_sorensen @jbiserkov American social media platforms forcing people to mask swear words in their posts and videos, all while destroying the fabric of society is the ultimate insult.
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> Norwegian Consumer Council hate enshittification and they're using humour to fight it.
I would rather see European country Consumer Council(s) to impose 10% turnover penalty on any enshittificator. This video feels to me like a desperate cry of powerlessness.
This is great!
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@dbattistella Huh, I thought that Danes were the only Scandinavians with a sense of humor; so much for stereotypes.
Oct 11, 2026, 7:33 AMIt reminds me of the humour in ‘Norsemen’.
@dbattistella That was pretty funny. I wonder if anyone else noticed the irony that it's a "vertical video" meant to be played on cell phone screens (both awkward and short lived/replaced quicker than normal screens) instead of normal video that makes sense on normal screens.
I feel a little ashamed of having watched it since I try to NEVER click on ANY of these vertical videos -- they're like "tik tok" or "shorts" and I just won't ever do those.
Hey, Look, there's a non-enshitified version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SPV4GZp-U Normal width, meant for normal screens, not the awkward frustrating disposable pocket sized ones.
@dbattistella "Planned obsolescence" ascribes intent that usually isn't actually there — and shifts the focus away from what actually is.
Most things use cheaper materials not to make them die and force you to buy new ones, but to shave a tiny bit off their costs and increase their profit margins. Why does this distinction matter? In part it doesn't — the profit margin consideration we can't fix on our side. In part it does — the markets keep choosing price over quality.
Enshittification is more extreme: they're not trying to kill off most things. Again, they're trying to make them more profitable. Things like using private data for marketing produce profits so they do it.
Markets, as a whole, have not put their foot down. Some of that is on us as a whole*.
*Inb4: *as a whole means people collectively. It does not mean you or me or whoever just clicked on this to say "actually I don't tolerate it."
Oct 11, 2026, 7:36 AM@dbattistella, oh is this fantastic.
I think we have a lot to learn from the Norwegians 😀
Oct 13, 2026, 5:19 AM@dbattistella they probably had a really good time filming this!
@dbattistella But, but— but my short term profits! My quarterly bonus! My stock buy-backs!
Oct 16, 2026, 12:12 AM