Recently the Norwegian Consumer Council Forbrukerradet published a report and a fun video about #Enshittification, the terrible process of BigTech locking in users, and then businesses while making worse and worse the service itself.
This week reported by the @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration
Video of the "Enshittificator" about to attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
cc @DigitalCoup
Tomorrow we will have @pluralistic in #BCN in a conversation with Simona Levi @X_net about his latest book #Enshittification now translated into Spanish by @Capitan_Swing as #Mierdificacion
Looking forward to that!
amb Simona Levi A Mierdificación (Capitán Swing), Cory Doctorow exposa els símptomes, el diagnòstic i la cura per a un Internet en plena metàstasi. Doctorow conversarà amb Simona Levi (XNet). Vivim el Mierdocè, la Gran Mierdificació: una època en què els serveis que ens importen s’estan convertint en enormes munts de deixalles. Quan Cory Doctorow […]
Thanks @pluralistic for joining us in BCN and @X_net and @Capitan_Swing for organising the event.
I bought the English version, as ebook.
Only disadvantage, I couldn't get a signed copy :-)
Great to support the author directly and obtain the book in 3 formats: pdf, mobi and ePub. Say bye to plutocratic lock-in enshittificators! Welcome pluralism, also in formats.
My meebook Android powered ereader even allows me to receive these files ;-)
It was good to meet in person and have dinner together. Agreed that we need to prepare better, collectively, against these bastards, and be ready for when things get (even) worse.
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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