Enshittification - ReCoLectora

digital audio

Publicado el 7 de octubre de 2025 por Macmillan Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-41760-2

(2 reseñas)

Enshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.

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

The once-glorious internet has degenerated into “platforms” that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in—businesses and users—the …

Enshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.

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

The once-glorious internet has degenerated into “platforms” that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in—businesses and users—the tech companies stripped out all utility, save the bare minimum needed to stave off total collapse.

In Enshittification, Cory Doctorow shows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics, or the great forces of history, but specific policy choices made by powerful people who ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are choices that can be undone. Enshittification is a Big Tech disassembly manual, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a diagnosis, and it is a cure.

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technicat@bookwyrm.social reseñó Enshittification de Cory Doctorow

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 …

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 license obligations) ripped out. The discussions on antitrust, IP law, labor history, etc. is more in depth and I assume more well grounded, but this is why it's nice to have references.

McCrankyface@books.infosec.exchange reseñó Enshittification de Cory Doctorow

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

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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.