In this talk, @pluralistic@mamot.fr covers the basic premise of enshittification, how the internet giants have lobbied to change the rules that let them get big to stifle competition, and finally, what can be done about it.

I only recently was made aware of the term enshittification, but had seen the decay of online platforms hasten, be it Twitter, FB, Reddit, Google, etc. The term and "play book" was helpful to draw connections between the behaviors on disparate sites.

I am slightly less hopeful than the author about reversing the course on some of these, but I guess there's something to be said about me posting this review on a distributed, federated service not part of big tech.

Overall a great talk, wake up call, and pointer to some hopeful directions.