enshittification
concept · 8 episodes · JSON
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … I’m going to repeat that this is separate from the whole enshittification thing. The enshittification thing is enclosure as a result of intentionally limp and captured consumer …
- Everything is Better, Except... … well, sure, lots of things are getting worse -- otherwise enshittification wouldn’t have hit a zeitgeist -- but are there things that are getting better? There have to be …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … only does putting a networked computer in something drastically increase the chances of enshittification [5] , but most kitchen appliance manufacturers are terrible at making computers! It’s not …
- Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers … use open source software Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know. Do not reply to tell me you don’t have this problem …
- Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge … In fact, here's how I'd do it, just for shits and giggles: ~~Innovation Trigger~~ Free money/zero interest rate/VC-fueled growth following the enshittification plan …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … use cheap money flood the market centralize enshittify profit I'd argue then that in enshittification we finally have solved answer to the ???? in the Step one, Step …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … What's the natural state of software? At this point I might argue that natural software is software uncontaminated by enshittification, so by association we might also mean …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … Doctorow of Enshittification's (a manner in which I hope he has been introduced at least once) latest book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of …