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Re:The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries by helpfulmandrill on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:37AM (#36999846)
The fact that you're misusing the term in that very sentence is either pretty stupid or supremely clever :)
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Re:The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries by krapp on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:40AM (#37000712)
A few people here are.

Apart from being obnoxious and immature, "enshittification" doesn't communicate any concept beyond "something turning into shit." Being both vague and emotionally charged, semantic drift is inevitable.

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Re:The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries by Hizonner on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:53AM (#37000877)
It at least conveys that there's an active process going on, which implies that somebody is INTENTIONALLY turning something into shit. That's important. It's true that it doesn't do a good job of conveying the exact process it means.
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Re:The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries by twojacobtwo on Friday August 04, 2023 @01:46PM (#37003332)
I wouldn't say that qualification of it being a process necesarily communicates intentionality, and I don't think any of the uses I have seen exclude it from being a process.
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