New word for old phenomena
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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Along with the views of it's users it's just fun to say things like enshitification and the great enshittening
Itβs a word that has become popular in general in the last year-ish. But if you hear it more here. It is likely because it is a term used to describe the dynamic that pushed people from Reddit and other platforms to Lemmy. So you will here it more here, since pretty much everyone here has been personally affected by it.
Basically we are a self selecting group of people who chose to leave (or minimize use of) big tech platforms. And are therefore much more likely to be aware of the problems with those platforms.
Exactly. It's actually turning me off Lemmy completely.
And some of the times I've seen it used, the evidence was weak. Once challenged, it often resulted in the "trust me, you'll see in a few years time" line
It's not unique to Lemmy. I've heard it on other platforms first before here
Yup I've been seeing it everywhere in YouTube comments and other social media, too.
Not just Lemmy, it is simply a popula word now. But for good reason.
Give me a synonym. Until then I'll use it.
Is it just on Lemmy?
Well, you know your platform has made it when it's spawning it's own buzzwords.
Maybe because many of us saw it happen the first time.
Because it perfectly embodies one thing the Lemmy hivemind hates the most about how large, for-profit corporations tend to behave
Wait... I thought Lemmy liked TPB as much as Star Trek. I just like Mr. Lahey
I think it's because enshitification is just sort of everywhere now.