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Aral Balkan

Enshittification… also known as “the toxic business model we all knew about but tolerated has finally begun to negatively impact even those of us with privilege.”

@aral Huh, that's an excellent point.

I had never thought about it, but if I, in the position of privilege that i am, notice something as being systemically bad, then imagine how many other, less privileged people have been impacted by it, for who knows how long.

And, not the most important bit, but kind of telling that we claim the discovery of it for our own by making up words for it. We really should check first if the most affected by it already have a term for it.

@aral I think this pretty much nails down why I've been getting somewhat annoyed by 'enshittification' suddenly being the hot new concept

@joepie91 @aral yeah, I'm torn between glad that it's finally creeping into the wider public consciousness and annoyed that it's been a problem for over a decade and very few people thought it would ever negatively impact *them*