The word #enshittification coined by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) does not mean "degrades in quality." It means more specifically, a product or service that degrades in quality due to revenue streams depending on selling ads to audiences. Perhaps over time it might come to mean more generally a product or service that degrades in quality due to stingy corporate managers cutting corners and eliminating the good bits of a product or service to increase profit margins. Feel free to read Doctorow's book Chokepoint Captialism to learn more.
I mention it only because I just had a most unpleasant conversation with some reactionary who seems to be trying to appropriate the term "enshittification" to simply mean "degrading in quality." My concern here is that these reactionaries want to erase from the word's meaning any evocation of Doctorow's more specific critique of products/services that profit from ad revenue, and maybe also to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about federated alternatives like Lemmy or Mastodon (they were talking about the "enshittification" of Mastodon and Lemmy, which is pure nonsense).
