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Cory Doctorow's Enshittification draws fresh attention online

Original: 📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s

Cory Doctorow's book 'Enshittification' is being shared widely, with readers endorsing its argument that online platforms have steadily degraded for users. The book frames the decline of the internet as a systemic era it calls the 'Great Enshittening,' and outlines how services could be repaired. Commenters echo the idea that frustration with major tech platforms is widespread and justified.

Why now: Growing frustration with declining quality of major online platforms is driving renewed discussion of Doctorow's analysis.

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• 📚 Enshittification by: Cory Doctorow Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it. We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on,… · bookblabla · 6

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