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Mastodon help me. Who coined the term enshitification first ? Was it Doctorow? Or someone else ?
@th I was not. Interesting
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st I’m fairly sure I heard it first from Doctorow. It’s such a perfect description of platform capitalism that it feels like it’s been around forever!
@aj aye. but did he create the term, or simply popularise it?
@quixoticgeek @aj I seem to recall him *claiming* to have coined it but not entirely sure. He certainly popularised it, and I've not seen him cite anyone but himself when bringing it up iirc.
@quixoticgeek are you familiar with Stigler's Law of Eponymy, which was discovered by Robert K. Merton? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy