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Scrollbars are becoming a problem (artemis.sh)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it has a very specific meaning, and people are now using it to mean "things becoming shitty". Just because "shit" is the base word doesn't mean that's what the whole word means.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Enshittification doesn't mean "thing gets shittier"? Who knew?!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No, it doesn't.

From Wikipedia:

Enshittification, also known as platform decay,[1] is a way to describe the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets.

From the guy who coined the term itself:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's just listing the whys and hows of "things get shittier ".

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Being a pedant is never a good look. You're missing the larger point. The same corporate impulse that drives platform decay ripples out to things like UX design. And that impulse is: the customer doesn't matter anymore, we already got your money, only what we want matters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Being intentionally ignorant is never a good look.