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Coursera got enshittified like crazy. The first couple of years had legit college courses on it. Then it became all about micro degrees and courses with twenty
by Blackthorn 2y ago
Coursera got enshittified like crazy. The first couple of years had legit college courses on it. Then it became all about micro degrees and courses with twenty minute lectures.
- soniman 2y ago[flagged]
- rexreed 2y agoYou might want to bring that up to Cory Doctorow, and tell him how he's polluting pristine minds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification: "Writer Cory Doctorow coined the neologism "enshittification" in November 2022, though he was not the first to describe and label the concept[1][2]. The American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year. "
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- implements 2y agoADS said: “From the time that it first appeared in Doctorow’s posts and articles, the word had all the markings of a successful neologism, being instantly memorable and adaptable to a variety of contexts.”
- cheschire 2y agoThe world is becoming double plus ungood?
- soniman 2y agoPlatform decay is more accurate becasue it's not about general worsification, it's about platforms specifically. I realise that "platform decay" doesn't sell books but it's perfectly usable in ordinary speech .
- cheschire 2y agoYes, many slippery slopes begin with seemingly benign or even legitimate acts.
- Bognar 2y agoWow how did I not think of that, surely the pattern of services getting worse to extract more money from users is due to someone saying a dirty word on the internet.
- Blackthorn 2y agoIt is extremely bizarre to try to blame me for the downfall of Coursera because of the language I used to describe its downfall.
- aklemm 2y agoWell I like it and find it useful, so I guess we’re at an impasse and will have to let the commenter proceed.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoAh piss.
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- whamlastxmas 2y agoI’d recommend you write a tampermonkey script to remove bad language if you’re this sensitive to it
- gosub100 2y agoI think you mean 'autological'.