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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing (theconversation.com)
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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

:/

Feels like we've had the term way way longer than that.

Websearch first results all say November 2022.

Feels like we've had the term way way longer than that.

I could have swore we were saying it in at least 2014.

Citation attribution enshitification detected.