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[โ€“] oldfart@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

One scenario is that normies join en masse and influencers/marketers follow them, and the quality of conversation goes to zero like on all big platforms. You can't solve this with software.

[โ€“] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 8 points 10 hours ago

So that's "getting shittier" but not "enshittification". The latter is explicitly a profit-motive driven phenomenon, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023. Here's the original post he made about it: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979