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I typod it, the spell checker fixed it, and then I thought the exact same thing, and went back and broke it again.

I'm claiming it and hereby releasing it into the public domain! :D

You need a PR for this. Someone start a repo. And while we’re at it, can we think of something better than enshitification? It just doesn’t roll off the tongue very well at all.

I've always been partial for "slumping into the melt" - a term from forging metal and glass. Everything becomes a even bland useless but barely working mix in the crucible of modern finance.

enshitification is just so onomatopoeically pleasing though. it's also like one of those fun German words, but in English.

It's similar to one of those George Carlin bits where putting a curse word in the middle of an ordinary word changes the power of the word. incredible -> infuckingcredible absolutely -> absofuckinglutely

I just don't know what enification means.

In German it would be Verscheißigung?

There is already a german word for it, it's called "Verschlimbesserung". Which you could translate to "Improving but making it worse", sounds better in german so. :)

Yeah, but that has no cussword component.

Verschlimmbesserung could be translated as imworsement maybe?

Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w

I think this shows the generational gap between the two of us. I didn't even know what a Tom Scott was.

> And while we’re at it, can we think of something better than enshitification? It just doesn’t roll off the tongue very well at all.

I think a term that doesn't slide off the tongue actually captures some of the feeling of what enshitification is.

"Why yes, our silver-haired CEO enshittified the product with a data-mining clowd service!"

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