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Corey Doctrow has a good term for this, or at least it’s him i heard say it: enshitification. I think it just captures the dynamics beautifully, it’s almost poe
by CraigJPerry 3y ago
Corey Doctrow has a good term for this, or at least it’s him i heard say it: enshitification. I think it just captures the dynamics beautifully, it’s almost poetic.
- bsder 3y agoOy, double T. It's "enshittification". And that's even the way Doctorow spelled it. The root word is "shitty". Double T. I've seen this a couple of times now without the double T, and it pains me.
- latexr 3y agoOriginal post was on the enshittification of TikTok. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
- hadlock 3y ago[flagged]
- Paul-Craft 3y agoAh, yes. Cory Doctrow. One of those people everybody hoped was full of shit and/or irrelevant 20 years ago, who, sadly, turned out not only to be right, but completely relevant (c.f. https://StallmanWasRight.reddit.com https://StallmanWasRight.reddit.com) That's a great word, but wouldn't just plain "shittification" be better?
- ncallaway 3y agoI think it's better as "enshitification". Where "shitification" would probably be a noun (like "relocation"), "enshitification" then becomes a verb to carry out that process (like "endanger" to "danger").
- pxc 3y agoNah, the verb form is definitely 'enshittify'. 'ification' always still indicates a noun.
- Frost1x 3y agoI didn't know there was a semi-common term coined for this process that seems pervasive. I'm fully adopting it.