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Business, profits, products and services turning into shit once they get big money — Enshittification.
You hear about some tech startups. And you probably missed the countless ones that are actually better functionally that the one that got funded.
Some good tech products have problems scaling up to keep the same level of quality, most tech products that can scale up, quickly turn to shit as they focus on profits.
I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way that a lot of products and services we use today are getting “shitty”
In 2022, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. It means:
“The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”
Trolls and extremists and bullshitters and the criminally vacuous have overtaken the social media platforms.
With AI content getting more prevalent, and companies turning to AI to generate content, your social media and even news feeds on Google are starting to be completely junk.
I’ve almost complete stopped using Twitter/X. I follow some people that have interesting tips, but…