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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 21:01:35 JST Sexy Moon
@jonny I suspect many people derisively called linguistic prescriptivists are also just people annoyed at useful words being ruined and replaced with worse ones -
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jonny (jonny@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 21:01:38 JST jonny
I am not a linguistic prescriptivist, I am an anti-capitalist, and seeing such a useful concept used to soften people towards the next vector of enshittification gives me another sign we didn't learn from this round.
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jonny (jonny@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 21:01:40 JST jonny
it is (was? does the use go away?) an extremely useful concept to make sense of what happens with corporate information platforms. it remains a very funny word, but I now see it completely robbed of its critique of informational capital. the latest thing going around equates a number of platforms at various stages of enshittification, landing on a "just use them for fun," which basically gets the concept backwards.
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jonny (jonny@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 21:01:42 JST jonny
as was predicted as soon as it was coined, the term enshittification has completely lost its original meaning and now just means "made bad"
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