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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When your only claim to fame is jamming the word "shit" into other words...

You need to milk all that ad money out of it you can.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He's done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So many accomplishments you couldn't even name a single one if you tried!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

he basically was all of EFF europe when i found him mid-2000s. he also worked boingboing for a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

Awards

    2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91]
    2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
    2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
    2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
    2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
    2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92]

For Little Brother

    2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93]
    2009 Prometheus Award[45]
    2009 Sunburst Award[46]
    2009 White Pine Award[94]
    2018 Inkpot Award[95]

For Pirate Cinema

    2013 Prometheus Award[45]

For Homeland

    2014 Prometheus Award[45]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I saw those on Wikipedia...

Honestly the only impressive bit was an xkcd character is based on him.

Like, you know it's not amount the amount of awards, it's the quality?

Like those Prometheus awards, those are just for libertarians and they have like five winners a year.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And most people have zero.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how many awards there are for writing...

Do you know about any of those or do you assume any award is prestigious?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think you understand that most people (like you too) have zero buddy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while you're shitposting. Follow your own handle's advice.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's skip for a moment the fact that, as other posters highlighted, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. Let's pretend that his only achievement was indeed the concept of enshittification.

Even then, it's a big fucking deal. He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn't just "lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.

Ft It's kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it's a little bit against what he stands for I know it's not apples to apples...

I read the article. It's kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.