Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Since we’re talking about it, and I really like the guy’s work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism “enshittification” in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept.[1][2] The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year.
Wait did you just coin that? That’s fucking brilliant /s
Edit: apparently I needed a /s because Lemmy doesn’t use this term constantly or anything?
Because there was no /s - no they didn’t, it’s been around for a little while now. It basically means products or services slowly getting worse rather than better - such as adding ads, adding useless or broken ai to everything, switching to a subscription without adding any actual value. This is almost always done in the interest of maximizing profit as much as possible, at the expense of the users (monetarily and experience wise). Basically, see any major company decisions in the last several years, especially at companies with very large audiences (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, etc)
Since we’re talking about it, and I really like the guy’s work, I figured I should say who coined it! Author, Cory Doctorow! He has a blog where he (among all the other stuff he writes about) defined the word, and wrote several articles about it.
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lol I didn’t think I needed the
/sbecause it was dripping with sarcasm.The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.
Sarcasm isn’t “pretending to be stupid” imo
This particular instance was certainly pretending to be ill-informed, so
Well ignorance isn’t stupidity, but also it was just SO obvious. Enshittification is one of the most used new words I’ve ever seen.
I think you were pretty obvious. Someone actually curious would have asked what it meant.
It was coined by Cory Doctorow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/