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only_me

@asakiyume @JoshuaACNewman
Hi! Please translate. Deepl.com can not translate the word "enshittification", so I do not know whether it means an ACTIVE or PASSIVE role. That is a big difference, I dare say.

7 December at 16:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.au
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Joshua A.C. Newman

@only_me @asakiyume
It means that, when a service is built with its interests aligned to maximized shareholder payouts based on userbase size, then they are making a system of enshittification.

The strategy is deliberate and built in to Venture Capital. But that model has inspired many, many people starting a business.

7 December at 16:44 | Open on xeno.glyphpress.com
only_me

@JoshuaACNewman @asakiyume
But what does that word MEAN? I still do net understand it.

7 December at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.au
Joshua A.C. Newman

@only_me @asakiyume
It’s a neologism, coined by Cory Doctorow that means what I just said. It’s the name of the process of inventing something that’s good, then turning into shit.

7 December at 16:55 | Open on xeno.glyphpress.com
only_me

@JoshuaACNewman @asakiyume
So it means "to turn something into shit"? And is an active deed?

7 December at 16:56 | Open on mastodon.au
Joshua A.C. Newman

@only_me @asakiyume
Yes, it’s the name of the process. Like “vitrification”, which means “turning to glass”.

7 December at 17:08 | Open on xeno.glyphpress.com
Asakiyume

@only_me @JoshuaACNewman

I think Joshua's answer probably is sufficient, but in case another wording helps, it means the process of taking something good and wrecking it.

7 December at 18:11 | Open on wandering.shop
Joshua A.C. Newman

@asakiyume @only_me
But it’s a particular process that descends directly from the thing’s business model.

7 December at 18:13 | Open on xeno.glyphpress.com
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