Mastodawn

My favorite word: Enshitification

Now there’s a book 📕 by Cory Doctorow

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once.

Ask any Facebook user who has to scroll past 10 screens of engagement-bait, AI slop and surveillance ads just to get to one post by the people they are on the service to communicate with.

This is infuriating. Frustrating. And, depending on how important those services are to you, terrifying.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish #Enshitification @pluralistic

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DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic Oct 6

Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?

Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and thousands of essays.

And yet for all the millions of words he’s published, these days the award-winning science fiction author and veteran internet activist is best known for just a single one: #Enshittification.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctorow-enshittification.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.-yB2.IYSTAEjmWUuE&smid=url-share

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Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.

The New York Times

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lemgandi Oct 6

@drrjv @pluralistic

You forgot to mention: Inevitable. Give an organization monopoly power, and like Checkhov's Gun, it WILL get used.