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Friday, February 09, 2024

The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we've entered the "enshittocene"?

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So what's enshittification and why did it catch fire? It's my theory explaining how the internet was colonised by platforms, why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, why it matters and what we can do about it. We're all living through a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of s--t. It's frustrating. It's demoralising. It's even terrifying.

I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the "great forces of history," and into the material world of specific decisions made by real people; decisions we can reverse and people whose names and pitchfork sizes we can learn.

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Can't get by paywall.

#1 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-02-09 03:18 PM | Reply

Huh. Sorry about that.

No paywall on this end. I don't go often to the Financial Times, so maybe I haven't hit an article limit. Article headline calls up discussions on Reddit and such, but they all go back to the FT source.

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-02-09 03:25 PM | Reply

"the material world of specific decisions made by real people; decisions we can reverse and people whose names and pitchfork sizes we can learn."

This is a natural consequence of the concentration of vast wealth in the tiniest fraction of people.

It's not something that comes naturally to the mind. Especially among a people who are propagandized from birth that they are free.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-09 04:11 PM | Reply

I can't get past the paywall either.

#4 | Posted by BBQ at 2024-02-09 04:27 PM | Reply

----------------, also known as platform decay,[1] is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets.
en.wikipedia.org

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-09 04:29 PM | Reply

4. Sucks. I can't get to it now either.

Maybe it'll appear elsewhere soon and RCade could repost. Be an entertaining topic to cover here.

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-02-09 06:05 PM | Reply

Try this one.

www.versobooks.com

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-10 01:00 PM | Reply

"We want a web where users are in control. That means a web where we freely choose our online services from a wide menu and stay with them because we like them, not because we can't afford to leave. We want a web where you get the things you ask for, not the things that corporate shareholders would prefer that you'd asked for. We want a web where willing listeners and willing speakers, willing sellers and willing buyers, willing makers, and willing audiences are all able to transact and communicate without worrying about their relationships being held hostage or disrupted to cram "sponsored posts" into their eyeballs."

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-10 01:01 PM | Reply

"---------------- is not likely to go away, but may get even worse as platforms struggle to keep hold of an increasingly dissatisfied audience. When Elon Musk at a recent Dealbook Summit/NYT interview stated that any advertiser that tried to blackmail him could go ---- themselves', this also suggests that user should get used to the dumpster that they are rolling in, because it is only going to get --------. "

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-10 01:02 PM | Reply

7/LYD: Many thanks.

#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-02-10 06:18 PM | Reply

Any time!

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-10 06:53 PM | Reply

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