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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I get not being a fan but no toggle switch. But in this case it literally isn’t “enshittification”. Is it anti choice? Yes. Is it enshittification? No. Enshittification does not just mean “thing I don’t like”.

Here is a quote that describes what enshittification is:

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, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

More info can be found here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess I used a different meaning then. I meant "product's loss of quality for no justified reason"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair. But in that case best use a more appropriate word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could. My English knowledge is still not perfect unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It’s ok. I would go with “user hostile” in this case.