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This is not what enshittification means. Facebook enshittified itself without ever having sold a product to its users. They were selling their users' personal d
by dreamcompiler 1y ago
This is not what enshittification means. Facebook enshittified itself without ever having sold a product to its users. They were selling their users' personal data before they ever became enshittified.
Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse.
- game_the0ry 1y ago> Enshittification is about obtaining, then abusing platform semi-monopoly power to extract more money from your users and your customers by making your product worse. Yeah, this is how I meant it. In the case of Sig, it was probably cost-cutting, product management by committee, corner-cutting due to tight business reqs, or some combo of the above.