My dad was trying to get a grooming appointment for his cat something that should take all of 5 minutes over the phone, checking a calendar and penciling it it, but no gotta do it through a web portal then an app, and make sure you put in your credit card number!
ofc my dad got more and more angry as even I was messing around with this crap going over fields over and over because I put in the wrong number, ugh. Bring back simple shit please.
It sucks. It's all bullshit to steal attention. It could all be websites. The whole latest iteration of the internet was to make it possible to do stuff that used to require dedicated programs using websites. I loath it.
If everything becomes an app you can eliminate the web browser entirely, and thus the "public" internet itself, completely and totally.
A digital enclosure and elimination of the commons.
But capitalists would never! That doesn’t sound like the behavior of the rational market
It's been running through my mind ever since we had a bunch of threads here discussing the fact capitalists might crack down on social media as being too far out of their control.
The whole concept led me to wondering how I would go about it, what would be the most efficient and least visible? What would feel like a natural transition? And this is what I came up with, it's what I would be discussing in their little private golf games about how to solve their little "problem" with the internet being such an untameable beast.
Even if they do it slightly differently, the concept of enclosure-but-digital works all the same.
I wonder if that’ll be the thing that causes people to riot
Who am I kidding, it will probably be bundled with treats or something equivalent
Nah if they're smart about this then it would be performed slowly over a long period of time and people will accept it as the natural outcome of things... "Progress"
Everyone that remembers the internet when it was better will talk about the good old days, much like already occurs with current internet vs pre social media.
People won't be able to articulate it easily and with no smoking gun outlining that it was a deliberately planned out practice there will be no method of agitating through it.