Cory Doctorow on Nostr: "Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the *symptoms* of platform decay: ...
"Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the *symptoms* of platform decay: it's also a theory of the *mechanism* of decay - the means by which platforms get shittier and shittier until they are a giant pile of shit.
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