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I like this term, engildification.

• BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  I was aiming for as opposite as possible to the overused (although often unfortunately appropriate) enshittification.
  • vaylian 3y ago
    Did you come up with it just for this post? It would be good to document it for the sake of "first known use".
    • bytefactory 3y ago
      I'm unreasonably excited about possibly witnessing a new popular term coming into being!
      • BLKNSLVR 3y ago
        It's far too infrequent an occurrence to become popularly used...
        • vaylian 3y ago
          Then we should do more good things that warrant the use of the word!
    • BLKNSLVR 3y ago
      I did, yes, but incredibly derived from enshittification (for which I believe we can thank Cory Doctorow). Having said that, I did look up 'gild' to make sure I was using a semi-obscure word at the opposite end of the scale that begins with 'shit'. Coming up with new words is surprisingly easy when there's an existing word requiring of a foil. Don't give me too much credit for this, I need to maintain my current level of almost total obscurity in order keep pumping out the quality ;)
      • thom 3y ago
        It's interesting because traditionally "gold plating" can have connotations of overdoing something, making something slow and expensive that could have been simpler.
        • HeckFeck 3y ago
          That would be how outsiders see those who don't shirk the extra work that goes into building their own infrastructure to escape the merchants of convenience.