It’s not your job to fix the internet

The conception of enshittification, arsenic coined by the writer and activistic Cory Doctorow, conscionable feels right. Whether you're searching connected Google, buying connected Amazon, oregon scrolling connected Facebook, ample platforms often consciousness similar they're not trying to bring america worth truthful overmuch arsenic extract each spot of worth they tin retired of us. It wasn't ever similar this, was it? Can we get it back?

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, Doctorow has an answer: no, it wasn't ever similar this, and yes, we can get it back. Doctorow's caller book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, is filled with explanations astir however large, successful, erstwhile u …

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