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And you know what is meant by "enshittification" in the context being used, you just don't agree with the usage.

Let's not pretend this word has decades of deep cultural and etymological history behind it. It's not a technical term or a term of art, it's a meme. It's something Cory Doctorow came up with in a blog post last year that only a few tech people care about. It's a hipster nerd poop joke.

And because it fits cleanly into a description of anything hipster nerds consider to be "turning into shit," it inevitably will, until people get tired of the meme and move on.



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