Comment on The dawn of enshittification

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it losing control of what your technology does? Because that’s where it starts, you get a blind buy of technology as a fashion statement, and that technology says “forget all the details, that’s beyond you”.

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  • Iunnrais@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model the follows exactly these steps:

    Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.

    Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.

    Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.

    It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So what’s the word for everything is made for consumers instead of users?

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      • PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You being willfully ignorant of what enshittification means doesn’t change the meaning of the word

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