ENSHITTIFICATION

Enshittification is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to everyday essential, to what we have today. As a word, it captures the feeling of a world that is ever worsening. As an idea, it explains why it's getting worse, whose fault that is, and what to do about the misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, and fraud that have taken over the internet. Enshittification is not a technical glitch.