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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

>>bombca+(OP)
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.

>>heyoni+Zj
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.

>>heyoni+Zj
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.

>>dylan6+uo
In German it would be Verscheißigung?

>>dylan6+uo
Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w

>>bombca+(OP)
"Why yes, our silver-haired CEO enshittified the product with a data-mining clowd service!"

>>heyoni+Zj
> 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.

>>golem1+Sq
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. :)

>>mikub+dy
Yeah, but that has no cussword component.

Verschlimmbesserung could be translated as imworsement maybe?

>>edward+3t
I think this shows the generational gap between the two of us. I didn't even know what a Tom Scott was.