RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️

They speedran the enshittification process, so quickly the term wasn’t even invented yet.

Only a decade late… Luckily qBittorrent is brilliant. And if qBittorrent somehow wasn’t an option, I might go with BiglyBT - it’s not the easiest on the eyes, but lots of settings.

I tried downloading it precompiled and it just complains about needing libsteam_api.so. Gonna see if compiling fixes that…
Nah, too much faff, as I’m on fedora. I couldn’t quite figure out the dependencies.

What about all the lost accounts due to the Mojang -> Microsoft account migration? Lots of people either didn’t get around to doing it, or was able to and that meant the game you bought was suddenly null and void as your Mojang account got deleted if you didn’t consent in time to migrate to Microsoft.

I use an extension which bundles 5 different solutions in one called PaywallHub. I hasn’t been updated for a while because it got hit by takedown notices, but the chrome extension and firefox addon repos are still available, you just have to install it a bit more manually: https://github.com/Angeloyo/PaywallHub

To quote Cory Doctorow on enshittification:

Here is how platforms die:
first, they are good to their users;
then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers;
finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Then, they die.

It’s just a happy accident that I had my 15 year old reddit account banned for calling out one of the many karmafarmers on the site. You know, the ones that’ll post something, get a bunch of upvotes (who knows if botted or not), then delete said post a couple of hours later. Who am I to tell if there’s a botting conspiracy there or not, but so much reposted slop ends up on r/all all the time. Anyway, glad I’ve, albeit forced, moved on just in time for the site to implode.