I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?
I think it’s because enshitification is just sort of everywhere now.
Why is there water in rivers?
because you’re not allowed to say “capitalism” nobody knows what that is
People find a shiny new word that sounds clever. They start using it so that they sound clever too. They like sounding clever, so they use it a lot. They start using it for things that it doesn’t actually mean, until it loses all meaning other than the most generic “I don’t like that.” The word becomes enshittified and people eventually stop using it.
Needing a substitute, people find a new word…
Remember when everyone was accusing each other of “dying on hills”? Glad that stupid shit is over.
It’s a cycle. Some of the other current “suddenly popular but as a result doomed” words I’m seeing lately are “grift”, “slop”, and the suffix “-bro.” They’ll likely fade away again once they become ubiquitous and some other new shiny word appears to glom onto.
We already have a word. Why change it?
Remember when things were better, before all the enshittification ? Pepperidge Farms remembers
I’m only here because I’m pissed at the enshitification of elsewhere. Of course Imma talk about it.
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Because the Fediverse itself is a response to enshittification.
This is it exactly. We simply have too many examples of why we cannot trust millionaire maniacs with running a platform…
This place is noticeably more anticorporate - which makes sense because corporations tend to be dicks - and leftist. Enshittification is a fairly apt term for what goes on.
and leftist
Wasn’t there some controversy a while back due to the political beliefs of the Lemmy developers and the instance they run (lemmy.ml)? Maybe I’m misremembering.
- Socialist: [exists]
- Nazi media: “THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER”
- Average person: “Huh. Guess they’re my enemy now”
Yes, that they’re too leftist and are apologists.
Yes, they are tankies. Arguably tankies are No True Leftist or they wouldn’t be fellating right-wing regimes, but at least purportedly and self-identified…ly… they are not only “leftist” but “Communist”, ML is Marxism-Leninism after all.
this is your brain on liberalism
What’s your opinion of the Bolsheviks?
Bolshevik? I hardly knew her!
I think there are some that think their beliefs and moderating is a little too extreme.
You don’t think Lemmy.world’s botting, sockpuppetry, and heavy-handed moderation is extreme lol?
It’s like the weeping angels from doctor who, the moment you take your eyes off the shit waves, you’re covered in it.
Recent helldivers and tarkov controversy be like
I think it’s just everywhere now. I see it on Tumblr too.
It’s because we were given a name for something that didn’t have a name before but was everywhere.
This is a great thing. With a definition we can understand and discuss the topic.
Gotta love linguistics
Language is magic. Some electrical impulses cause a bunch of electrochemical reactions in a complicated pile of meat to make air vibrate, and at a distance another complicated pile of meat turns the waves into a similar series of electrical impulses.
Of all the unlikely stuff to happen to make use… that’s still just wild…
I’m just glad people stopped inserting the word “literally” everywhere. Literally language enshitification.
And that, everybody, is literally not the correct usage of “enshittification”.
Jk, but for real though, it’s not a direct synonym for “degraded” or “gets worse”. It’s more specific than that.
Plus, “literally” now literally has an alternative definition in the dictionary meaning “figuratively”. So y’know, maybe get over the needless linguistic prescriptivism.
I’m literally a prescriptivist though. But only during reverse office hours.
The problem is that when a word means one thing and it’s anonym at the same time, it does make it hard to tell which one they’re using. Usually it’s easy to tell, but not always. It’s not about prescriptivism, rather utility. I’m fine with language changing, but I hate losing useful words.
Agreed. Happy for language to change but what word do I use to tell people I’m not exaggerating?
Reddit is inside the walls of enshittification. Reddit kowtows to the techbro narrative. Dissenting voices do appear there as they aren’t a full blown censorship. By and large the reddit userbase has historically been in aligned with big tech.
I think it’s happening more and more in the tech industry - one theory I heard was that rising interest rates meant companies couldn’t just take out loans that were practically free money, so they’re cracking down on monetizing every nook and cranny.
Reddit was no exception. Many of us left this thing we once loved because of it, and came here. So on top of industry trends, there’s a huge selection bias among us Lemmings.
Spot on imo.
Because it is what early !collapse@lemmy.ml looks like from a consumer’s standpoint.
