Cory Doctorow

It's the little icon that goes in the tab, and it would just fill the whole screen, like a high-res vector image of the TripAdvisor logo.

So in a fit of pique, I tweeted, has anyone at TripAdvisor ever been on a trip?

This is the most enshitified website I've ever used.

And people did what you're doing.

They kind of polite chuckle.

And then, you know, a year later, I was thinking about this bigger critique of platform decay.

And I was like, you know, I kind of got a laugh out of that word and shitification.

Maybe I'll use that to describe this thing.

The reason that I think that story matters is it tells you that it's not merely the minor license to vulgarity, although I think that's important.

People love cussing.

But it's the combination of the technical critique and the minor license to vulgarity that was like the magic peanut butter and chocolate here that if it were just the vulgarity, people would have just been using it for all the interim.

Oh, so like we... So there's this idea that's very critical to ancientification called adversarial interoperability.

And this is a technical term and no one...

understands what it means unless you're already someone who understands what it means.

And so we came up with this thing called competitive compatibility or COMCOM, which we thought would be fun to say no one liked it.

In the end, I didn't like it.

But adversarial interoperability, it's like it's super important.

It's when you take a thing that the manufacturer has designed in a way that doesn't suit you,

I probably in a way that like harms you with the manufacturer's benefit, like say a printer that can only take ink from the manufacturer and you modify it.

Right.