Yeah, it has a very specific meaning, and people are now using it to mean “things becoming shitty”. Just because “shit” is the base word doesn’t mean that’s what the whole word means.
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NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 months agoThe overuse of the word enshittification drives me crazy.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Enshittification doesn’t mean “thing gets shittier”? Who knew?!
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
From Wikipedia:
Enshittification, also known as platform decay,[1] is a way to describe the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets.
From the guy who coined the term itself:
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.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Being a pedant is never a good look. You’re missing the larger point. The same corporate impulse that drives platform decay ripples out to things like UX design. And that impulse is: the customer doesn’t matter anymore, we already got your money, only what we want matters.
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
That’s just listing the wise and house of "things get shittier ".
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, thank you! I thought I was the only one I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds every time I see it.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe listen to that feeling.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GOT EEM
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ooh, we have an internet tough guy over here.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Feels like it’s always been a buzzword for whatever someone doesn’t like right now
burliman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thank you. I think it was overused even the moment it was used for its intended purpose. It feels really im14andthisisedgy to me.
atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m actually really glad we’re hearing it.
It’s a sign that people are finally starting to have higher standards.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And I think this is a dumb take, considering who coined the word and why. It’s a variation of “I hate anything trendy or popular”.
chris@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Underuse IMO. We’ve grown complacent in so many regards.
atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What do you mean ‘overuse’?
It’s just now entering our vernacular.
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Are they wrong for using a word correctly? Or are you wrong for being a bitch about it? Hmmm.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It’s Lemmy’s “play stupid games…” variant
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup, and when I used it, I knew someone would bitch about that. It’s funny how people get hung up on their pet peeve more than they do the more serious underlying issues we’re talking about here. It’s the same phenomenon politicians and wealthy elites use to keep us fighting each other over trivial culture war bullshit instead of pulling together to improve our material interests.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Enshittification of “enshittification”
/s
elxeno@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Enshittiception
abcxyz@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ekshuliiii… it should be Enshittificursion or Reshittification. Inception means something else.
I’ll show myself out.