Cory Doctorow on Nostr: For the record, it doesn't bother me *at all* that some people are using ...
For the record, it doesn't bother me *at all* that some people are using "enshittification" to mean "corporations fucking shit up" without regard to my formal definition of the process. As I wrote last October:
> Many people apply the term "enshittification" very loosely indeed, to mean "something that is bad," without bothering to learn – or apply – the theoretical framework. This is good. This is what it means for a term to enter the lexicon: it takes on a life of its own.
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