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

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

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Enshittification@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Word of the Year 2024 - Macquarie

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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

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

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