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From the Wikipedia article:

Doctorow argues that new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss; once suppliers are locked in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.[11] Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.

And when discussing the solution:

The second is the right of exit, which holds that users of a platform can easily go elsewhere if they are dissatisfied with it. For social media, this requires interoperability, countering the network effects that "lock in" users and prevent market competition between platforms.

It's a made up word that was defined by a specific article by the person who made it up. So yeah, it is.

No, we don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

A key component to this is being locked in, which didn't happen here as most of these games are still available elsewhere. No one is stuck with a games subscription where the quality of games is dropping. This is just a business realizing it's not viable and paring back their offerings.

People on Lemmy seem to have a tendency to overuse enshittification, which sucks because it refers to something real and also actionable. If you dilute the meaning, you make the solution less likely. Lemmings should be among the forefront of people familiar with the real meaning, since Doctorow's suggested solution is open standards for interoperability, like ActivityPub/Lemmy.

Do you say hetips for HTTPS?

No but now I want to start (though I'd go hittips instead, and its insecure alternative, hittip). HTTPS has always been a mouthful lol

Lol this is hilarious. This paragraph is my fave:

We identified that color is a way to connect with people across all divides (and we have research that people respond positively to it) — it is a universal language that transcends the boundaries of our diverse verbal languages. And we chose “Colorways” rather than “themes” to show we are branching out from our language of “browser” to speak the language of everyday life and everyday users. This is about more than just installing a new “theme,” which really doesn’t have much meaning to most people.

On a completely unrelated note (your username), I just started reading a couple Asimov novels! Any recommendation for which ones I should pick up next? I've already done I, Robot and Caves of Steel. Thinking maybe I start Foundation soon (but just started the TV show).

The last language I learned was Rust, I did a mix of the two. I read through the canonical Rust book and then got to coding because I learn more deeply when I can apply what I've learned. It's still a tricky language to keep a conceptual model of in your head though.

No, it only has an integrated html previewer. They removed the full integrated browser because it was unnecessary and an actual browser did the trick

Are you telling me that no compiler optimizes this? Why?

There is much meaningful difference - gold has widespread practical use, while paper currency does not

Nothing you've said is wrong, but (at least in the screenshot) the OP didn't say anything about it being used in anything official. It's a relatively common term in everyday language thanks to medical dramas which use coding a lot, and it's even in the Merriam-Webster medical dictionary.

Not to invalidate what you've said! Just pointing out that it not being used in official contexts doesn't make it nonsense to use elsewhere, like on some forum.

Yeah this was before I realized Lemmy didn't have DMs 🤷🏽‍♂️

Obligatory: Cuttlefish https://xkcd.com/520/

A little off topic, but do you know of a kink community on Lemmy? Not porn, more just to talk about it/share resources, etc.