Comment on The dawn of enshittification
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days agoIs 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”.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So what’s the word for everything is made for consumers instead of users?
PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You being willfully ignorant of what enshittification means doesn’t change the meaning of the word
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ok, do you want to lord my ignorance and your supreme knowledge over me, or do you want to enlighten me?