• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.

    • Why is it limited to platforms? Can’t enshittification apply to other things like applications?
    • Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
    • The platforms dying thing isn’t what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They’re not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.

    I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.