Australian Macquarie Dictionary chooses "Enshittification" as Word of the Year

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Australian Macquarie Dictionary chooses "Enshittification" as Word of the Year

www.macquariedictionary.com.au

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Enshittification@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Word of the Year 2024 – Macquarie

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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