[gfosco]

> we’ve instead entered a period of “Enshittification”, where the platforms we loved and trusted have been taken over by corporate interests that no longer care what the users want or need.

It's funny to me because we've been here for many years. i.e. Facebook hasn't given two shits what people want or need in a decade. People have been asking for more control of their feed, and complaining about user-hostile decisions made all this time. The other big tech cos are no different, and "trust" has always been low..

[winternett]

It's also ripe for companies to extort and fleece users in several other categories of software dependence, especially with mobile phones, and even with cars that rely on software and signs of intentional sabotage are beginning to manifest in mission critical consumer and government systems and solutions just to encourage costly upgrades and updates.

It's long overdue to send a serious message to software makers that turn upon their user bases. Congress has dropped this ball too many times. We can abandon Facebutt and InstaGramps over abusive and user hostile changes, but when you have to watch a 5 minute ad before starting your car when your wife's water just broke, it all becomes too real... I know, dramatic example, but it can get that bad if we give it a pass now/

[thebiglebrewski]

Fair point, I think different platforms have gotten there sooner than others, but I'm just noticing far more of them reaching this point lately.

[dv_dt]

I think it's actually been happening on a broad economic scale with different scales of organizations being in different phases. Basically when a nation or company is expanding into new productive capacity without any previous thing there (expansion into vacuum) - things are good, but once one needs to replace entrenched interests then the enshitification starts. This is where the entrenched interests to ensure profits takes precedence to more efficient or productive value creation. IMHO, this can happens at company, industry, and nation level scales. E.g. The US in the 50's was early cycle, now it's in the late cycle with small GDP growth. China was in the expansion into vacuum phase with high GDP growth, and is in the latter stages of that ending.

[red-iron-pine]

> It's funny to me because we've been here for many years

Bro it's called Capitalism, and it's been like this since the beginning.

An angry German guy wrote a critique of it years ago and got his name plastered on everything because of it. It's the same discussions, over and over.

Cory Doctorow gave it a fun name with a dirty word in it, but it's been happening for ages.