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  • FinchHaven sfbaFinchHaven@sfba.social
    Sep 7, 2025, 6:08 PM

    @karlauerbach

    I've thought for quite a while that Doctorow or someone needs to update "enshitification" and rebrand it as "enappification"

    People simply have no concept of the Internet as transport between autonomous destinations

    Everything is "an app" "for that" on their phones

    And too much very bad mischief is simply one fat-fingered mis-tap away from identity theft and device compromise

    I could go on and on, but an entire generation is simply lost and vulnerable sitting ducks

    cc @timbl

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  • FlicFlisty@mstdn.social
    Sep 10, 2025, 8:08 AM

    @FinchHaven @karlauerbach @timbl the basic concepts of even a web address or a file location are getting further from everyday understanding all the time. Everything is via app or QR code. It's pretty difficult to access the file system on my android, even to find something I downloaded.

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  • FlicFlisty@mstdn.social
    Sep 10, 2025, 1:33 PM

    @FinchHaven @karlauerbach @timbl and of course you have to bypass all sorts of popups and redirects to the app store to access things like Facebook messenger or TikTok without the app - because where's the fun in providing a service if you can't scrape data off everyone's phones while you do it?!

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