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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://saturation.social/users/clive/statuses/114478935959758915">Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 04:34:01 JST</a><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" title="clive@saturation.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/21777-48-20230219204149.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Clive Thompson" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Clive Thompson</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>New coinage just dropped, folks</p><p>"enshittogenic"</p><p>as in ...</p><p>... when the ecology of the online world loses crucial stabilizers, such that enshittification has not yet happened, but the conditions are ripe for it</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic">@pluralistic</a> on his new podcast series "Who Broke the Internet?"</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5034078#notice-9868145">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-05-11T04:34:01+09:00" title="Sunday, 11-May-2025 04:34:01 JST">about 18 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114478935959758915" rel="external" title="Sent from saturation.social via ActivityPub">saturation.social</a></span></span><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive/114478935959758915">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4607683">Screenshot reading:"These four forces – competition, regulation, labor power and interoperability – once acted as constraints, because they punished enshittifying gambits. Make your product worse and users, workers and suppliers would defect to a competitor; or a regulator would fine you or even bring criminal charges; or your irreplaceable workers would down tools and refuse to obey your orders; or another technologist would come up with an alternative client, an ad-blocker, a scraper, or compatible spare parts, plugins or mods that would permanently sever your relationship with whomever you were tormenting.As these constraints fell away, the environment became enshittogenic: rather than punishing enshittification, it rewarded it. Individual enshittifiers within companies triumphed in their factional struggles with corporate rivals, like the Google revenue czar who vanquished the Search czar, deliberately worsening search results so we'd have to repeatedly search to get the answers we seek, creating more opportunities to show us ads"</a></label><br><a href="https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/478/934/537/672/662/original/b48d7498cf1eca21.png" rel="external">https://sb-9g02l2bbpw.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/478/934/537/672/662/original/b48d7498cf1eca21.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/">Pluralistic: Who broke the internet? (08 May 2025)</a></h5><div> from <span>Cory Doctorow</span></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 04:34:01 JSTClive Thompson
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New coinage just dropped, folks
"enshittogenic"
as in ...
... when the ecology of the online world loses crucial stabilizers, such that enshittification has not yet happened, but the conditions are ripe for it
@pluralistic on his new podcast series "Who Broke the Internet?"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/
In conversationabout 18 days ago from saturation.socialpermalink
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1. Screenshot reading: "These four forces – competition, regulation, labor power and interoperability – once acted as constraints, because they punished enshittifying gambits. Make your product worse and users, workers and suppliers would defect to a competitor; or a regulator would fine you or even bring criminal charges; or your irreplaceable workers would down tools and refuse to obey your orders; or another technologist would come up with an alternative client, an ad-blocker, a scraper, or compatible spare parts, plugins or mods that would permanently sever your relationship with whomever you were tormenting. As these constraints fell away, the environment became enshittogenic: rather than punishing enshittification, it rewarded it. Individual enshittifiers within companies triumphed in their factional struggles with corporate rivals, like the Google revenue czar who vanquished the Search czar, deliberately worsening search results so we'd have to repeatedly search to get the answers we seek, creating more opportunities to show us ads"
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  Pluralistic: Who broke the internet? (08 May 2025)
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