In seminar discussion today a number of people mentioned feeling somewhat powerless, so we made the point that this is NOT the end of the story.

People described thinking fondly of a time when Instagram innocently informed them "You have reached the end of your feed", rather than spamming them with algorithmically personalised adverts (Enshittification).

Well, here's a thing: you're not alone and when a lot of people feel the same and move away, things change. Things change or die.

Here's a talk by one of our authors, Cory Doctorow wherein he describes this process:

Here is how a platform dies:

First, it is good to its users, then, it abuses its users to make things better for its business customers; finally, it abuses those business customers to claw back all the value for itself. Then, it dies.

We are living through mass, end-stage platform decay, the Great Enshittening.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/27/an-audacious-plan-to-halt-the-internets-enshittification-and-throw-it-into-reverse/