Below are posts associated with the “Enshittification” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Some real cathartic rage in here.
🔗 linkblog: How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
Good interview, and yet another thing reminding me that I need to read my copy of the book!
🔗 linkblog: Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to
Finally got this book, so I guess I need to read it now.
🔗 linkblog: Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?
Fun profile on Doctorow; I’m excited for my preorder of his book to arrive this week!(?). Gift link.
burn down the platforms
I have ten minutes to rage-write this post before I join a meeting, so it may not be particularly nuanced—though I’d love to revisit these examples in the future. I recently got to listen to Cory Doctorow read the first hour or so of his forthcoming Enshittification, and I was struck by two things in the first couple of minutes. First, by the way that he tied enshittification to platforms, and by the way he loosely defined platforms as intermediaries. I think there’s something important in both of those.
📚 bookblog: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)
This is good! It’s another book that I took too long to read, so it’s hard to review when I took breaks for other books between sections.
It’s a very Doctorow book. I mean this in three ways: First, it makes an impassioned plea for a niche-but-important tech cause. Second, it overlaps with his fiction writing in really obvious ways. Third, it reads like an extended blog post (which I mostly mean as a compliment).
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like.