--- title: What is #Enshitification? | daily.dev description: An overview of Cory Doctorow's concept of 'enshittification' — the pattern by which platforms first serve users, then exploit them to benefit business... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-enshitification--bbrsvwwtn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is #Enshitification? | daily.dev og:description: An overview of Cory Doctorow's concept of 'enshittification' — the pattern by which platforms first serve users, then exploit them to benefit business... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-enshitification--bbrsvwwtn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BbrSVwwTN.png og:image:alt: What is #Enshitification? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is #Enshitification? **[Lawrence Systems](https://daily.dev/sources/lawrencesystems)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An overview of Cory Doctorow's concept of 'enshittification' — the pattern by which platforms first serve users, then exploit them to benefit business customers, and finally extract value from everyone. The piece endorses Doctorow's book 'Enshittification' alongside 'The Internet Con' and 'Chokepoint Capitalism' as resources that not only diagnose how tech platforms decay but also propose paths toward a healthier internet. The importance of having shared language to describe and organize around this problem is emphasized. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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