There is immense pressure on public administrations now to respect the environment. They have obligations to satisify green policy objectives which includes pushing the “digital transformation” down our throats. They care more about that than public satisfaction. They also know that environmental policy influences election votes much more than digital rights policy.
If you simply complain about enshitification despite using the platform and thereby creating a metric to the contrary, the complaint is just seen as “someone is unhappy”. They may or may not count unhappy campers. But even if they do, it’s a lower priority metric.
We often must choose between fighting enshitification or protecting the environment. We cannot have it both ways in many situations. If you do everything digitally, there is no question you are whole-hog supporting enshitified platforms.
Casting an anti-enshitification vote requires using analog methods like snail-mail. The “right to be analog” movement (!right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz) goes hand-in-hand with anti-enshitification¹. We need to protect the postal service. The threat is real, considering Denmark has eliminated their postal service nation-wide this year. The postal service is our refuge from enshitification. Without postal service, you are absolutely forced to eat their digital shit.
IMO climate activists have a tendency to exaggerate anyway. The GHG footprint of a paper letter and envelope is overblown, while at the same time the GHG footprints of digital transactions are downplayed. No one talks about how a graphical image on the stationary of an email payload exceeds the CO₂ footprint of a paper envelope.
See How to cast your anti-enshitification vote.
¹ In fact, note to mods: consider adding !right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz as a related community in the sidebar.