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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:20:22 JST tante

   Things are not "enshittified". It's capitalism. Those things go together, it's not a "broken form" of capitalism or something. Same with "rot economy" and whatnot.

   I get that one likes to coin new terms but more and more I feel like those terms are actively making analysis and insight harder: They cloud more than they explain.

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     hagen terschüren (hagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:30:43 JST hagen terschüren

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     @tante to be fair »enshittification« has been completely broken as a term anyways because people never read doctorow’s definition and just used a word that sounds fun for literally everything.

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:48:13 JST Cory Doctorow

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     • hagen terschüren
     • ErosBlog Bacchus

     @ErosBlog @hagen @tante

     'The only way to maintain a precise, theoretically grounded use of a term is to confine its usage to a small group of largely irrelevant insiders.'

     https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toilet-has-no-central-nervous-system

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     ErosBlog Bacchus (erosblog@kinkyelephant.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:48:19 JST ErosBlog Bacchus

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • hagen terschüren

     @hagen @tante It's pretty normal for a word to have a narrow technical meaning and a much broader popular usage that is gleefully adopted by people who do not know or never understood the narrow technical sense of the word.

     #Enshittification @pluralistic

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     j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 05:12:07 JST j@mastodon

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     @tante

     Sure it's capitalism. But if you keep saying that for every aspect or symptom that comes up, the word will lose it's meaning and potency, as it has.

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:23:25 JST alcinnz

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • hagen terschüren
     • ErosBlog Bacchus

     @ErosBlog @hagen @tante @pluralistic Though I will remark the reverse also happens, perhaps especially when it comes to compsci jargon! Like "algorithm".