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Enshittification
- WorldPeas 1y agoTheir next move should be to codify the current meaning of "slop" given it's being used so widely nowadays
- lastcat743 1y agoCouldn’t this be any “platform” that degrades due to the prominence of least common denominator (such as profit, or noob centricity)? I think “digital” exclusivity could have been omitted.
- chistev 1y agoReddit used to be so good but then they redesigned it, adding all kinds of algorithms to keep people engaged and it just just got worse. I don't know, maybe they are hitting their profit quota.
- _mlbt 1y agoReddit lost me once nearly all of the subreddits became highly politicized leftist echo chambers, even ones that should have no relation to politics.
- WorldPeas 1y agohow's the fediverse equivalent these days? I used to love hardware-oriented subreddits but they've become hotbeds for shilling and people posting the fresh-out-the-wrapping things they got from retail rather than anything unique
- divbzero 1y agoI wonder how Cory Doctorow coined the term and whether it was inspired at all by The Simpsons use of ‘embiggens’: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Embiggen https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Embiggen