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Enshittification: how profit wins over customer experience

If you ve never heard the term enshittification, you re in for a treat.
It was coined by author Cory Doctorow, and it perfectly describes what happens when platforms get so big that they slowly turn to...crap.

  • Instagram turning into a shopping mall

  • Amazon burying real products under a mountain of ads and sponsored maybe-it s-real-maybe-it s-not listings

  • TikTok pushing whatever keeps you scrolling, not whatever you actually care about

  • Twitter/X well, everybody knows

Doctorow explains enshittification in three phases:

  1. The platform showers users with value: Everything is free, fun, simple, and frictionless. You think, Wow, capitalism isn t so bad after all.

  2. The platform squeezes users to please business partners: More ads. More promotions. More recommended for you content that you did NOT ask for.

  3. The platform squeezes partners to please shareholders: Everyone gets annoyed. The user experience collapses. And the magic disappears. Products that once felt cool now only make you more stressed and dissatisfied.

Would love feedback from all the people trying out gitarsenal v2.

We just released the second version of GitArsenal, and a lot more updates are on the way.

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Stickerboxp/stickerboxGabe Perez

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Stickerboxp/stickerboxGabe Perez

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Elon Musk vs OpenAI, who do you support ?

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