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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by notExactlyI20@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org
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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] rnd@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some people have come up with the word "enshittification" to describe the basic cycle of modern web services.

The cycle consists of three parts:

  1. You make the service that attracts new users by providing what they want. Often you do that at a loss, because your goal is to gain a big enough userbase for steps 2 and 3.
  2. Once there's enough users, you shift to attracting commercial interests instead -- vendors if you're running a store, advertisers or celebrities or other "big clients" if you're a social network, etc.
  3. Once both users and commercial interests are hooked, you can start tightening all the rules and switching completely to profiting yourself and your shareholders.
[–] aaronbieber@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am under the impression that the term was popularized, if not invented, by Cory Doctorow. See his many writings on his ad & tracker-free website; https://pluralistic.net/tag/enshittification/

[–] Deebster@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wiktionary gives him the invention credit (although its source does seem to be KnowYourMeme).

[–] aaronbieber@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That is a spectacular definition though! Spot on!

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bestest of sources.

[–] nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree, we all know that any article that cites the onion is 100% infallibly correct 100% of the time

[–] gotofritz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

"entshittification" is such a terrible word, can't believe that a professional writer came up with it