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Re:The Great Enshittening by krapp on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:08AM (#38394273)
No. Non-technical people don't deserve a worse experience simply because they have interests besides computers and programming languages. And being "technical" isn't a signifier for being friendly, civil, intelligent or even sane - the archetype of the "cat-piss man" exists for a good reason. And the web circa 1995 was post AOL and post Eternal September. You didn't exactly need a degree from MIT to use it. It wasn't that deep.

And besides, technical people are the reason the internet is the way it is. The same people who shat in everyone's punchbowl are now complaining about the taste.

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Re:The Great Enshittening by beej71 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @04:07PM (#38397561)
> You didn't exactly need a degree from MIT to use it. It wasn't that deep.

I guess... no problem then...? Non-technical people can just stop using the enshittified Internet today. Why don't they?

> And besides, technical people are the reason the internet is the way it is.

I'm with Doctorow on this one, that greed-driven vendor lock-in is the reason it is like it is.

> The same people who shat in everyone's punchbowl are now complaining about the taste.

I don't know about this--I don't see Google or their peers complaining about the taste at all.

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