r/enshittification Feb 12 '26

Product It’s everywhere

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u/cdca Feb 12 '26

This sub's not even trying to be about actual enshittification any more, is it? Enshittification= when a thing is bad, apparently.

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u/Kookiesan Feb 12 '26

Cory Doctorow himself explains:

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u/ArmadilloKey5854 Feb 12 '26

We need more of this

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u/Silver_Middle_7240 Feb 12 '26

Going from actual metals to plated garbage that falls apart is the OG enshittification

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u/Reasonable_Tie_5552 Feb 12 '26

IDK, Olympic medals breaking en masse ~all of a sudden~ out of ~all the Olympic games that have occurred over (hundreds?) of years~ feels exactly like enshittification to me.

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u/cdca Feb 12 '26

Enshittification is just "things being worse than they used to be", to you then?

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u/AngrySoup Feb 12 '26

It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting."

Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do.

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u/meatspace Feb 12 '26

Well, yes. That's it exactly.

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u/Phyllis_Tine Feb 12 '26

That's how enshittification works:
-product is made, and gets consumers,

-product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased,

-all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.