“We’ve known for over a decade that people come to Reddit to talk about the products they love – take r/BuyItForLife for example, a community of over 1.5 million redditors who have been sharing recommendations and advice about their lifelong, must-have purchases since 2011. These updates will uplevel the search-and-discover experience for both brands and our users by tapping into our differentiated value as a hub for actionable conversation”
I am a bit slow but what does this even mean? Looks like corporate speak cranked up to 11.
This almost reads like a parody.
It’s like they read the enshittification essay and thought “wow! There’s some great ideas here”
Can you link me to this enshittificatoon easy you mentioned?
The site of Cory Doctorow
It’s a good read. This looks like an updated version of the original, but it’s his blog and it seems like he just added more detailed post-mortems.
It’s one of those things where you think “how does every platform fall into the same pattern of growth and decline?”. He breaks down the capitalistic forces and motivations of the players well - you start to see it’s an inevitable outcome if you build a platform in the form of capitalism we live under
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification
@GilloutineBreast
@SterlingVapor
Somebody accidentally chose the more creative option instead of the more precise option when they ask chat GPT to rewrite their marketing spiel.
Hardly! My old boss wrote to the group that we should “effort to action these asks on the spends” and I realized he was one of them now.
But ‘uplevel’ is wonderfully stupid and you do have a solid argument.
you saw it. you recognized it for the crap it was. you have seen the hive consume one and have exfiltrated this info to us. there is hope.
This reads like Succession Kendall dialogue lmfao