Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification

kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enshitification has been enshitified.

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• capital@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too much. Reminds me of that time not long ago where every lie was “gaslighting” all of a sudden.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It wasn’t. That’s just you.

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why you little…

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or how a favorable opinion is propaganda. Like, ok, we get it, you don’t like that one thing. 🙄

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• tearsintherain@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a word that encapsulates our times very well. But I hear ya.

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• finthechat@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate it. It's been used so much that it's lost all meaning.

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• Voytrekk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The word really started to become popular last year, especially regarding Twitter and Reddit.

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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a very accurate word for what is continuing to happen in this instance. This is not a bad use at all.

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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. I’m glad that people seem to have more interest and understanding of rent seeking behaviors, but can we stop pretending this is new?

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• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Should we stop using a word because it describes reality too well? I see it everywhere these days, and it’s an accurate descriptor.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In this specific case, it’s exactly the reason Cory Doctorow invented the word.

  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.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

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