Hope

Enshittification documents how things rot – but rot isn’t a verdict. It’s a starting point. This is the page for what comes next: guides on taking action.

We know how platforms degrade, how regulation gets captured, and how privacy erodes. Hope isn’t pretending that’s not happening. Hope is knowing exactly what’s wrong, and having a concrete next step.

Everything here is a guide to doing something about it. We’ll keep adding to this page.

Unravel enshittification, one service at a time

Check out fulu.org — the Fulu Project. It’s a set of open guides for “unraveling” a platform: quit it, or fix it, without losing your data, your community, or your sanity. Fulu is built for exactly the kind of thing enshittification calls out.

Support the organizations fighting back

When you want your action to have leverage, back the people who already have their shoulder on the wheel. Support the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — the leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. Become a member or make a donation; it goes straight to the lawsuits and advocacy that push back against the worst behavior.

Support smart regulation

Enshittification thrives in the gaps regulators leave open. Supporting meaningful, enforceable regulation — rules that actually bind the platforms, not just the people who use them — is one of the highest-leverage actions there is. (More guides on how to weigh in on specific rulemakings are coming.)

Fight for interoperability

Enshittification runs on lock-in: once your data, your community, and your workflow live on one platform, that platform can stop serving you and you have nowhere to go. The antidote is interoperability – the requirement that services talk to each other. That means real, enforceable data portability, open standards and open APIs, and the ability to federate or move to a competing service without losing your content or your people.

Interoperability should be fought for as a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. It should be the default demand we make of every platform: in the regulation we support, in the tools we choose, and in how we pressure the services we use. When your data can walk out the door, the platform has to actually earn your business instead of holding you hostage. Supporting interoperability is one of the most durable wins there is – it shifts the power back to people, permanently.

Support your own privacy

Privacy isn’t a single purchase — it’s a practice. Start where you are: shrink your tracking surface, take back your data, use tools that don’t sell you out. We’ll keep adding practical privacy guides here.

This page is a work in progress. Check back — we’ll be adding more guides on taking action.