• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Don’t wanna be “that guy”, but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean “greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck”, then that just is what that word means now.

    It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that’s how she goes.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And the everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.