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Casey L
@caseylmusic.bsky.social

Back in good old days of Cracked someone, I think Jason Pargin, said the turning point of Google abandoning “Don’t be evil” began when they started forcing people to use Gmail accounts for YouTube and looking back that’s when a lot Silicon Valley started going to hell.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioI Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't EvilApple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...
GreenEngineer
@eubanksengineeringresearch.com

The key to all this, in my mind , is the principle that if you are getting it for free, it’s means you are the product rather than the consumer. (Of course, now enshitification means you’re paying for it, and are still the product.)

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GreenEngineer
@eubanksengineeringresearch.com

I have wondered if a company were to produce an honest software ecosystem (OS, office suite, browser and mobile OS at least) that was dedicated to consumer ownership, privacy and *not pissing off the user* — would they get traction? I’d happily pay hundreds of dollars a year for that.