• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Enshittification means something more specific than just making a thing worse. It means making it worse in a way designed to exploit or take advantage of the user by stealing their personal information or something like that.

    This is more like “value engineering” and “planned obsolescence.”

    • GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip
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      23 hours ago

      Interestingly, Cory Doctrow just said in a verge podcast episode that he loves to see enshittification applied as broadly as possible because it raises awareness and gets people talking