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“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism
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Millionaires and politicians simping for money on Mastodon, while otherwise people who are actually disabled, homeless or in need struggle to even get their posts begging for contributions seen?
Wow, didn't expect that of all thing that would enshittify the Fediverse, it would be a politician going for the left.
That's not really enshittification, is it?
I was under the impression that Cory Doctorow's definition was largely based on how social media platforms entice people with "free" offerings, then gradually tighten the screws over time to make service worse. This usually happens when a platform becomes the dominant player.
Eh, language evolves, terms that follow normal grammar constructions eventually are expanded beyond their niches (see: "forbade" and all those verbs that start with "for"; as well as "embiggen" etc).
"Enshittify" is literally just "make something shittier" ("en-" + "shit" + "-fy"). Sure it was coined for the idiosyncracies of this absurd timeline, and we are all glad for that -- but really it's just a correct word that has always existed it just went unused.
Now, if you want to pedant, sure let's go that way: Mozilla is also a platform that "entices people with a free offering" (Firefox), then "gradually tightens" (or, really, loosens) the screws over time "to make that service worse" (Pocket, Robot, post-Auralis UI, AIs, etc). This "usually happens when a platform becomes the dominant player" (in this case, basically the only big Gecko browser).