When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.
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Feels like we've had the term way way longer than that.
Websearch first results all say November 2022.
Feels like we've had the term way way longer than that.
I could have swore we were saying it in at least 2014.
Citation attribution enshitification detected.
Academic publishing was definitely a contributing factor to why I left academic research.
I also believe we should incentive peer-review. Maybe every researcher should be evaluated on how many articles they peer-review each year, relative to the amount they publish. I knew some researchers who would publish dozens of articles every year, would peer-review zero of them, and then complain about poor quality peer review.