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Is it? How do you define enshittification?

Because adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning “making things worse” -ificaton.

The rest of this story is very predictable following Meta’s track record with social media. Everything will go to shit from a UX perspective now that they’ve decided to put ads in the app. That is how this works.

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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How do you define enshittification?

I don’t. I use Doctorows definition.

If anything, if you prefer signal to WhatsApp (I do), you should be happy with its enshittification - because that means it’s killing itself. But it’s not, and it’s already shit, and its users are okay with that.

adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning

They’re not paid

They’re not promotions

It’s opt-in

It’s basically a way to keep up with events you’re already interested in (your favourite band, local soccer club, etc). You’re complaining about an optional feature you don’t want to use, that doesn’t even exist yet, and misrepresent it as ads.
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- xodoh74984@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, no, I’m right. This is always how it starts, and these new Channels “partners” will definitely be a revenue stream in the future if they aren’t already. Your view is naive.
  
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