Enshittification Buzzword Debate

See my comment about the term here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808198

It's become another buzzword. Another phrase for people to throw at each other.

New buzzword for old thing alert.

He's not saying it's a new term. He's saying that it's being applied when it doesn't really apply in order to just brush people under the rug.

The word "fraud" has really lost its punch these last couple years. OpenAI has actual, working products that people think are valuable enough to pay for. The name is misleading, sure, but that doesn't make them a fraudulent company.Is there a word for the opposite of the euphemism treadmill, where people call ordinary things by worse and worse names trying to get an emotional reaction out of people?

Just a popular buzzword that they used without understand the meaning.

I guess I did miss your point, I thought by “we” you meant us currently in this conversation here, instead of some other hypothetical situation. In that case, sure, it would be good to have a sanitized named to describe the thing.Enshittification seems to have found resonance with the folks who engage with tech often, so I think it is a good term for us as. But maybe something like “abusive platform cash-in” would be a better name in other contexts.

I think it's just a hip new buzzword, like "disrupt the nuclear family", "disrupt white supremacy" etc

That term has a very specific meaning and I wish people stopped using it to mean "big tech doing something bad"

Yes, it's a standard term of art within the hastily-rephrasing-wikipedia-for-SEO community.