enshittification

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The enshittification of the app is perhaps temporary, but, either way, it could spell the downfall of TikTok, the way so many social media platforms fell before it.

From Slate

Between that and the increasing digitization of new electric cars—which just makes them more expensive and allows insurance companies to track and surcharge you—I’ve been wondering: Is enshittification partly an effect of the computerization of everything?

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On his Pluralistic blog, Doctorow coined the term enshittification as a succinct explanation as to why more Americans and global citizens were embracing the “techlash”: Corporations in Silicon Valley were making their products more extractive, juicing more revenue and rigging the game in their favor, because they’d eliminated all viable competitors.

From Slate

Adobe forcing a software-subscription model so that artists have little control over necessary tools and find it prohibitively difficult to cancel any services—it’s all enshittification.

From Slate

Outlets like Wired and the Financial Times prominently republished the blogger’s screeds on the topic; the American Dialect Society deemed enshittification its 2023 Word of the Year; thinkers like Paul Krugman and Slate’s own Dahlia Lithwick have expanded its lens to make sense of the crumbling of American democracy.

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