The Enshittification of Everything

You know the feeling. Your Google search is useless, your feed is all ads, and finding a decent charging cable on Amazon feels like an archaeological dig. There's a name for this digital decay: "Enshittification." In this episode, Sascha Funk goes beyond the memes to reveal what's really happening when the platforms we love inevitably turn into sludge.

Moving from Cory Doctorow's sharp diagnosis to the prescient theories of Jürgen Habermas, we'll uncover how the cold, profit-driven logic of "the System" is systematically paving over the digital public parks where we used to connect. Using examples from Reddit's API protests to the manipulative design of your food delivery app, this is a deep dive into the communication of sludge, corporate gaslighting, and the central, cynical question: can we ever fight back, or are we doomed to scroll through the digital ruins forever?