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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Enshitification is the dead spiral a platform goes when it starts to prioritize money, you can read more here: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
It's pretty odd to use a term about the blind focus on capital to describe a process (defederation) that's only really feasible because there's no capital.
A for-profit company must appease their users so they can grow. Lemmy has no such need. It does not need to grow. It simply needs to sustain, and instance owners don't have investment in its future growth. As a result they can afford to say "I don't like this user, begone" and "I don't like this entire instance's thing, go away."
Can a free platform without commercial interests actually fall to classical enshitification?
He just really wanted to use the word he learned this week.