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grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Enshittification means something more specific than just making a thing worse. It means making it worse in a way designed to exploit or take advantage of the the user by stealing their personal information or something like that.

This is more like “value engineering” and “planned obsolescence.”

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Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
From Wikipedia, here is the article snippet that originated the term.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

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