Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Hardcover, 352 Seiten

Sprache: English

Veröffentlicht von MCD.

ISBN:
978-0-374-61932-9
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Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify.

We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.

Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification, he was not just finding a funner way to say “things are getting worse.” He was making a specific diagnosis about the state of the digital world and how it is affecting all of our lives (and not for the better).

The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users―and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then …

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worth reading but treat it as a very long thread with no links

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There is a lot of good content here, or at least content I agree with, but the italics to citation ratio is astronomically high, with one or two italicized words per paragraph and no reference section at the end. So it's like going to the coffee shop every day (I read a chapter per day, that's all I could take) and listening to that guy exclaim about late stage capitalism over his Frappucinno. And the author admits he's still on X/Twitter, twisting that into an example of how Big Tech has us hostage, but bottom line it's an example of another internet celebrity talking a good game but not willing to lose any followers. He does briefly mention Mastodon and the Fediverse and ActivityPub but doesn't mention other ActivityPub platforms in the Fediverse besides Truth Social, which it isn't, it's a copy of Mastodon with the Fediverse parts (and the …

hat Enshittification von Cory Doctorow besprochen

Interessante Einsichten warum Big Tech nervt

Als Ebook im engl Original gelesen. Ich komme aus der Tech Branche und hatte kein Problem das Buch im Original zu lesen. Im Mai 2026 soll eine deutsche Übersetzung erscheinen. Cory D. ist SF Author, Aktivist in der Electronic Frontier Foundation und ein sehr aktiver Blogger z.B auch auf Mastodon. Enshittification, was man als Verschlimmscheißerung übersetzen kann, ist ein Phänomen, bei dem Dinge die im Internet gut und hilfreich waren, immer schlechter werden. Cory definiert wie eine Krankheits- Pathologie in 4 Stufen, und zeigt an verschiedenen Fallbeispielen was und wie es passiert. Das gibt insights in bekannte Anbieter mit denen wir alle zu tun haben, aber auch in Branchen die die meisten nicht so kennen, wie Grafik Design oder Traktor Reparatur. Er zeigt hier schon vielfältig auf warum und wie das uns schadet und was mögliche Lösungen wären. Im letzten Teil des Buches wiederholt sich das etwas, speziell das Thema …

hat Enshittification von Cory Doctorow besprochen

Enshittification - Capitalist scum are siphoning off our surplus value and shitting on our heads

There are plenty of reviews of this book so go read one of those instead.

This book helps to explain why almost everything on the internet---and, more generally, our capitalist world---is getting worse. There are things that can be done about it but I'm not sure that there is the political will in the world to make it happen.

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