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This may not be in the dictionary, but it's an English word with a common prefix and suffix. If we consider English to be an agglutinative language or have aggl
by seeknotfind 3y ago
This may not be in the dictionary, but it's an English word with a common prefix and suffix. If we consider English to be an agglutinative language or have agglutinative parts, this is just a rarely used form of a word, and I wouldn't think a second about using it in a general context. Trying to reserve it in this specific context of platform decay I think probably won't stick and I don't get why it's a headline or has a whole Wikipedia article
- amadeuspagel 3y agoIt's already not sticking, it's already used to whine about any kind of change, any redesign on HN. One imagines an old folk's home where people cry "enshittification" every time a wall is painted in a different color. Platform Decay is four syllables, Enshittification is six. The reason it's used, when a more precise word would be shorter, is precisely because it appeals to a general anxiety about change.