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It's a term coined by Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi writer and ex-EFF, who has been writing about (tech) monopolies, and in particular monopsonies, and how those types of two sided markets originally grow by given users something they need, often for an artificial low price or even free, until they dominate that side of the market, after which they focus mostly on the other side of the market, in this case advertisers, and step by step, slowly dismantling the reason users originally liked their product... Enshittification.
Doctorow has lots to say, so here's a link.
Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I've often wished @[email protected] had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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That's 100% the reason it caught on.
People around here seem to really really like saying it.
There is some perception bias there, because you won't hear that much from people who don't want to use the term (like me), unless they engage in a pointless meta-comment like this one.
That's fair. I personally hate it, but I see it in almost every thread about what big tech is up to.