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Enshittificaiton begins!
by bitpush 2y ago
Enshittificaiton begins!
- dewey 2y agoSomehow everyone learned about this word in the past two years and now it's been so overused that it's getting boring to always shout it as soon as something changes.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoHappens to every new word that becomes popular on the internet.
- canardlaquay 2y agoI understand getting bored of it, but it's only been "overused" because it's the same pattern everywhere since the beginning of this decade. In the last few years, a lot of companies went down the anti-consumer road: shrinkflation, lower quality/reliable parts, and just like Perplexity, forced ads in paid subscriptions for Netflix/Prime Video/etc. So I think it very much applies in this case.
- autoexec 2y ago> now it's been so overused Is it actually overused or are you just tired of being reminded that so many things are constantly getting objectively worse?
- amelius 2y agoWe finally have a word for what capitalism eventually leads to. In a few years economics textbooks will be full of it.
- AlexandrB 2y agoIt's such a common pattern in technology - especially in VC-funded companies - that it's nice to have a single word to be able to discuss it concisely. In a way it's not too different than old-school "dumping" of products at below cost to drive competition out of business only to raise prices once you have control of the market. Though with internet companies the "price" is often the volume of ads you end up getting exposed to.