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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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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.
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.
Thanks, never heard of it & will switch to it myself!
Just as short and not as inappropriate.
Decay?
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.
Yeah. 'Decay' has a natural whiff to it, while 'enshittification' reeks of it being actively made that way.