Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.
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Cory DoctorowScience fiction novelist, journalist and activistThe temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.↗Tiktok's enshittificationpluralistic.net · 21 Jan 2023All korrents from this piece
Their wordsThe temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.
Their wordsAn enshittification strategy only succeeds if it is pursued in measured amounts. Even the most locked-in user eventually reaches a breaking-point and walks away, or gets pushed.
Cory DoctorowScience fiction novelist, journalist and activistAnd policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created↗Tiktok's enshittificationpluralistic.net · 21 Jan 2023All korrents from this piece
Their wordsAnd policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created