Antienshittification
7 hours ago
- #data-privacy
- #decentralization
- #internet-platforms
- Cory Doctorow's term 'enshittification' describes internet platforms' lifecycle: starting beneficial for users, then exploiting them for advertisers, then everyone for shareholders, and eventually dying.
- The dark forest theory highlights that public web spaces have become hostile due to surveillance, ads, and trolls, pushing people to private, rented spaces like groupchats and Discords.
- Metalabel's DFOS is an antienshittified platform launching next month, offering member-governed, private spaces with groupchat, feeds, treasury, and no ads or algorithmic feeds, supported by members.
- The DFOS protocol uses Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) for cryptographic, user-controlled identities, allowing proof of authorship without exposing content, ensuring data portability and privacy.
- DFOSBOX is an app that syncs user data from DFOS spaces to a personal machine, protecting against platform enshittification by keeping data verifiably and securely under user control.
- DIDs enable a richer, intuitive user experience without sacrifices, with compatibility potential between DFOS (private data) and Bluesky's AT protocol (public data) due to their open, flexible nature.