Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    So I think the term “enshittification” has been latched onto and goatse’d by the community at large to the point people are now using it to mean “things getting worse because business.”

    I am pretty sure everything is getting worse because business.

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      That’s exactly what enshittification means. That’s the name we’ll call this stage of capitalism.

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        It’s not really. Sure, the end result is “things getting worse because of business”, but enshittification specifically refers to the practice of hoarding users with a quality product, to then extract maximum profit from them while shedding any semblance of quality.

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        That’s NOT what enshittification was coined as, and there’s plenty of other words that already mean what you want. Stop diluting terms that we need.

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        It’s an idiotic word and it’s already been abused to where it’s meaningless. I don’t care anymore whatever argument someone is making the second I see this dumbass word. It’s become the lazy go-to instead of people pointing to specifics for their arguments. Nah, just easier to generically say things are shitty now.