An audacious plan to halt the internet's enshittification [video]
This talk is incredibly information dense, and Cory does not skip a beat on talking about this topic passionately. He does an excellent job at introducing the unaware to Big Tech monopolies and how they can just buy out any company that they deem a threat. In his own words, "we can just treat our users like shit because we're the only game in town".<p>But at the same time, Cory makes a compelling argument that this isn't something that can be resolved just by talking shit about these companies on Twitter. It requires antitrust cases, strong privacy laws, and much stricter involvement from government, where EU seems to be leading the way at least in some areas.<p>He also talks about manipulation in the digital economy space; fake reviews, ads, forced search results, etc.<p>I suppose what struck me about this talk the most is that this is how "enshittified" the web is right now and you can't really escape it unless you lock yourself away in your terminal and never again open your browser. That's insane!<p>And then you have to consider that if you drag any of the Big Tech names to a courthouse, you won't just magically get justice (if you will get it at all) because they will drag you through the mud for years if not decades before a verdict can be reached. That is even more insane!<p>So it begs the question, if I can't help from a law/regulations perspective (of which there are very few people who can), then what can I do as the average web user who has already shifted himself away from the biggest monopolies? What if I can't contribute software? Do I just wait, as Cory says in the talk, for these companies to make mistakes (cheat) to get the ball rolling?<p>Hacker News is arguably the best place where something like this can be discussed, so I am open to hearing suggestions how myself or anyone else can contribute to this cause in ways other than those mentioned above. If I feel so strongly about this, then am I missing out on being part of some group/collective where there is work being actively done on this?