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Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"? (lemmy.world)
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I'm thinking even for cases of like shrinkflation.

I saw an article about potentially cheaper RAM here, so it got me curious if things ever really get better on occasion.

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I thought enshitification was the specific process of "platforms" gaining a large market share, then exploiting both the buyers and sellers that use the platform to jack up profits/extract more rent.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Yes, while Mr. Doctorow isn't interested in policing any language, including the term "enshittification", it was originally a process of how platforms are first good, to attract users, then bad, betraying their users for advertisers and/or suppliers, then worse, betraying their advertisers/suppliers for their investors, and ultimately they provide the cheapest/worst service possible to just barely keep users and advertisers/suppliers using the platform, advertisers/suppliers locked in to the user base, and users locked in due to a lack of interoperability or effective monopoly.

    It's related to "chokepoint capitalism" and to a lesser extent "technofuedalism".

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