Enshittification means something more specific than just making a thing worse. It means making it worse in a way designed to exploit or take advantage of the user by stealing their personal information or something like that.
This is more like “value engineering” and “planned obsolescence.”
Interestingly, Cory Doctrow just said in a verge podcast episode that he loves to see enshittification applied as broadly as possible because it raises awareness and gets people talking
Enshittification means something more specific than just making a thing worse. It means making it worse in a way designed to exploit or take advantage of the user by stealing their personal information or something like that.
This is more like “value engineering” and “planned obsolescence.”
Interestingly, Cory Doctrow just said in a verge podcast episode that he loves to see enshittification applied as broadly as possible because it raises awareness and gets people talking