Citations:enshittify

English citations of enshittify

Verb: "To make an online platform worse by enshittification"

• 2022 November 28, Cory Doctorow, “How monopoly enshittified Amazon”, in Pluralistic‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-26:

  That is, we could let local merchants use Amazon's ASIN system to tag their own inventory and produce a realtime database. […] But this only works to the extent that Amazon's search isn't totally enshittified.

• 2023 January 23, Cory Doctorow, “The 'Enshittification' of TikTok”, in Wired‎^[2], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

  The real risk, of course, is that the things you say won't reach the people who asked to hear them because Twitter can make more money by enshittifying their feeds and charging you ransom for the privilege to be included in them.

• 2023 March 3, Tim Harford, “The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?”, in Financial Times‎^[3], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 March 2023:

  Everything in a market economy has the potential to be enshittified: the taxi company can be late every time; your local bistro can serve you microwaved ready meals; the coffee shop can double its prices. They don’t, because they know you’ll leave and never come back.

• 2023 June 14, Ashley King, “Reddit Blackouts Impact Music Communities Online — CEO Not Backing Down”, in Digital Music News‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-06-15:

  The outcome of this reddit blackout will be interesting. For most of its lifetime, reddit did not have a mobile app. After it acquired Alien Blue—the company got to work enshittifying the new mobile app beyond usability for most power users.

• 2023 July 13, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Enshittification just keeps happening”, in The Hustle‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-07-13:

  Some linger. Some churn. Investors get scared. Layoffs happen. A new thing comes along. It'll probably also enshittify.

  An intransitive use.

• 2023 July 19, Roger McNamee, “To Save Itself, Hollywood Must Build Its Own ChatGPT”, in Wired‎^[6], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

  Social media platforms offer benefits to users until they are hooked, then they "enshittify" the product to appeal to advertisers. Once advertisers are on board, platforms "enshittify" their experience, as well as that of users, to extract maximum value.