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Iunnrais@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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