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  • @Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    46•9 months ago

    What? Who tf expected that!? They bought Oculus, enshittification happened, and their products are worse now.

    • PixelEnglish
      14•9 months ago

      i hate facebook as much as the next person but the products definitely aren’t worse, I just figure that iteration on VR tech is really hard. The quest 2 and quest 3 are, genuinely, kind of incredible devices from a technological perspective, they’re just hamstrung by faceook. that’s bad but I don’t think it’s fair to say the products are specifically worse when oculus was acquired so early on

      • Eggyhead
        2•9 months ago

        Facebook is the only reason I don’t already have one or two of these headsets right now.

        • PixelEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          IIRC the quest 2 is jailbroken, if you can get your hands on one secondhand might be worth looking around to see what your options are

      • Eggyhead
        16•9 months ago

        English teacher here. Languages change over time and there’s nothing you can do about it.

        Feel free to speak with old english if thou very regard it matters. :)

          • Eggyhead
            4•9 months ago

            i don’t believe enshittjfication will stand the test of time

            I actually hope you’re right, because I believe it will only linger as long as there’s behavior taking place that it clearly defines.

            you jive turkey.

            I love this. I wish it was my account name.

              • Eggyhead
                0•9 months ago

                It’s just a wish. It’s a funny term and I like it, but not worth the effort of making a new account and subbing to all the same groups again. I’ve done it thrice already and it’s a pain in the ass. Maybe I’ll use it next time I sign up for something though.

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        10•9 months ago

        Yeah, we’re a society. Things happen outside of grammar and word rules handed down to us from above…

          • Zorque
            12•9 months ago

            Why, in objective terms, is it lazy and dumb? Or do you just not like it?

            Plenty of useful and appropriate words are used by people in dumb ways, that does not make the words themselves dumb.

                  • @Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
                    1•9 months ago

                    Lol relax. No one is being “harassed” here, we’re discussing on a public forum. No one forced you to post your dumb opinion or triple-down on it. You still think you’re right? That’s totally fine, but you must realize people are not always going to agree with you…

          • AngryMobEnglish
            4•9 months ago

            What you describe as the word’s flaws make it perfect though. The word itself is an icon for the actions it describes

          • livus
            2•9 months ago

            Fair enough but what word do you use instead of enshittification? It filled a gap in the language.

              • livus
                2•9 months ago

                Before I reply I just wanna say I’m not trying to fight or argue I’m just quite interested in language.

                All your context-dependent examples are verbs, whereas “enshitification” is a noun - a state of being. That’s why it fills a gap in English.

                Otherwise you need an entire sentence to describe that process A happened to B thing and the result is C state.

                It doesn’t seem intellectual at all to me, I mean it has the word shit in it and its closest contender for meaning is probably “fuckedupness”.