Cory Doctorow always has more to say.

In Part 1 of our chat with the visionary journalist, blogger, sci-fi author and social philosopher, we defined and examined “enshittification” — the British-Canadian activist’s term for the sudden, sharp decline of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. We dug into the issue with retaliatory tariffs, dismissed by Doctorow as “the stuff of 19th-century geopolitics,” and explored an alternative action that focused on Parliament, policy, anti-circumvention laws and open-source technology.

In Part 2, we pivot from macro to micro: the personal impact of platform decay, our nostalgia for the internet of yesterday, the one that once teemed with community and competition, the one from before the bulk of us were kettled and trapped by maleficent apps that used our social ties to bind us to their misanthropic vision.