Cant imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
You can never vote in your life and still have to pay taxes. You could be as non-political as you want, you're still paying taxes. What's the point of pretending this only affects people who are into politics?
Also surely that's not correct on the sidebar right? Only online platforms? That's that's not what we're here for. If that's what it says someone fucked up. That's obviously not right.
Well, I mean, I remember when Cory Doctorow first created the word, and it's always meant to me what the sidebar says. It captured specifically why online platforms start out very consumer-friendly to attract users, until the users and businesses are trapped by network effects, and they become the product being sold.
Maybe language changes, maybe it now means just "things getting worse" to some people. But I honestly think that's a tragedy, because if "enshittification" loses its specific meaning, it loses the power to specifically call attention to this phenomenon.