{"id":8560,"date":"2024-01-31T13:44:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:44:51","slug":"enshittification-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/enshittification-is-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Enshittification is happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The pre-enshittification era wasn&#8217;t a time of better leadership. The executives weren&#8217;t better. They were constrained. Their worst impulses were checked by competition, regulation, self-help and worker power. So what happened? One by one, each of these constraints was eroded until it dissolved, leaving the enshittificatory impulse unchecked, ushering in the enshittoscene.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The all pervasive move across businesses to do less, make more money, with a consequence of making things worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tried to contact a big corporation about an issue? Bought a computer game that offers micro-transactions or has it&#8217;s own currency? That company you liked has been sold and now the service has degraded? Bought a book, music or movie online that has DRM that has suddenly been revoked? Tried to use a web search engine and get mostly paid for advertisements? The list appears to be endless. Welcome to the new era of humanity: the enshittoscene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-enshittification era wasn&#8217;t a time of better leadership. The executives weren&#8217;t better. They were constrained. Their worst impulses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,433,460,468,4,436,447,465,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foi","category-idiocy","category-inequity","category-politics","category-privacy","category-propaganda","category-stupidity","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}