I know they’ve always been on Lemmy, but it seems like the past few weeks it’s slowly increasing, making me want to just stay on beehaw /local. Showing up on more communities, even on instances that ban that type of trolling explicitly.
Anyone else notice this?
Note: When I’m saying Tankie here, I’m not referring to far leftists, socialists, anti-capitalists, etc. I’m talking about trolls that act leftist but their actual intent is to cause infighting and support authoritarian regimes. Sealioning, all that stuff.
I’m mainly seeing people who love using the word “enshittifation”.
It reminds me of the time the kids learned the word “snowflake”
Bonus points to those who have a hissy fit after someone responds to the claim and to those who say “trust me” after you claim it’s ridiculous
I’m also really tired of this word honestly. Yes, we know it’s happening and see it all around us. It’s kind of been doing it for 20 years, so it’s just kind of funny since the word just popped up in these circles and now its run rampant and is beginning to lose its meaning, saying it about any business or service that is looking to make profit.
Not that I disagree, just like yeah guys we get it, everything everywhere sucks, pointing it out every 30 seconds doesn’t really do much if we aren’t actively taking actions against it, which gets into the whole “then we have to bring it up know about it” and the cycle repeats itself.
It is a meaningless term now since it is used to mean something is shitty instead of the specific transition from something useful into an ad infested hellscape.
Any term with a precise meaning becomes muddked and generic the more popular it becomes as people see it used without the context to let them kmow what it means. I would try to coin a new term for it, but why bother when it will lose all meaning in a few months?