Enshittification: A Case Study


Yes, it’s a vulgar word but, nonetheless, it was the American Dialect Society‘s 2023 Word of the Year. It’ a neologism, coined in November 2022 by the inescapable Cory Doctorow. It means a pattern of changing priorities where online product and service providers exhibit a decline in quality over time. You see it as as platforms transition through predictable stages:…