[DaiPlusPlus]

Enshittification specifically is when a product/service/platform gets worse from the user’s perspective because the platform vendor can directly profit from user-hostile design; for example, Google intentionally serves up bad results on the first search results page so the user clicks-through to the second page of results, resulting in more advert revenue to Google[1].

…whereas I feel what you’re describing is another Tragedy-of-the-Commons.

[1]: https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-d...

[red-iron-pine]

enshittification is a hip, tech-bro term to mean "rent seeking" and is nothing new

[chongli]

Rent-seeking is too general of a term. You can rent-seek just by raising prices.

Enshittification specifically means deliberately making the product worse as a rent-seeking strategy.