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I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Custoslibera to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Honest question: What are the alternstives?

I agree that enshittification is a, well, shitty term, but I know obly it to describe the problem at hand.

Alternstives I think of are walled gardens, collapse of the internet as we know it, lockdown of social media sites, etc. - none of them all that simple and miss the point enshittification has.

[–] TheGrandNagus 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The only other good term for Enshittification I've seen used is Platform Decay. It was even coined by the same person who coined enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, never heard of it & will switch to it myself!

Just as short and not as inappropriate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Decay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Decay is a natural process however that just happens if you don’t stop it. I still think ‘enshittification’ fits it best because it implies a bit of intentionality on the part of the shittifiers.

The term is sticky (ewww) and I think we are stuck with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah. 'Decay' has a natural whiff to it, while 'enshittification' reeks of it being actively made that way.