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Not limited to digital platforms, unfortunately
Not limited to digital platforms, unfortunately
@pluralistic Congratulations, enhancing concise communication one adverbial phrase at a time.
@pluralistic Congratulations! And it looks like they nailed the definition. Are you happy with it?
@pluralistic Nice, but is Enshittification restricted to digital platforms?
For example: Isn't the way products like smartphones, kitchen appliances, even cars, or train locomotives, become less and less repairable an enshittification, too?
For example: Isn't the way products like smartphones, kitchen appliances, even cars, or train locomotives, become less and less repairable an enshittification, too?
@pluralistic congratulations! :D
@pluralistic The IT director for my work city used the term “encrapification” today, so now there’s a SFW version.
@Fledglingnerd @pluralistic I made this slide in my talk at Everything Open in January mostly ‘coz it amused me but also ‘coz we sometimes have young folk in the audience… 💁♀️
(yes, I read it out as “en-poop-ocene”, “en-poop-ening”, etc. 🙃)
@pluralistic Curious; why do they confine the definition to digital platforms? That's unrealistically narrow.
@pluralistic IIRC, your produced many apt and delicious neologisms, but it’s lovely that this one has become unavoidably entrenched.
@pluralistic replace "digital platform" with "product": a lot of non digital things have been enshitified!!!
@pluralistic I'm currently listening to episode 500 of your podcast containing an excerpt from #Enshittification the audio book.
At the beginning you not only quoted Ed Zitron, you actually had him say: "I'll never forgive them for what they've done to the computer." I thought that was super cool.
It made me think the audio book would be even better with more people voicing their own quotes, like having @tveastman actually say "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
I don't know if he'd be interested, and I don't know if it's possible at this stage, but IMO it would really enhance the audio book experience to do that.
Just an idea.
@pluralistic Not quite true to how you described it but not bad for a first pass of history.
@pluralistic I feel this definition isn't limited to just digital platforms.
@pluralistic It's now legal in Scrabble if anyone manages it!
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That is totally fetch!
@pluralistic looking forward to seeing this word in next year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee. 🐝
@pluralistic joining the pantheon of Noble wordsmiths who have shaped our language — like Shakespeare or George W. Bush
@pluralistic congrats! Their definition isn’t quite the same as you coined it, since it’s not just users that things get worse for, but it’s concise and close enough to how people have been using it.
Very cool to have that in a dictionary now!
@pluralistic On its way to becoming Word of the Year!
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Congratulation Doctorow, it's not everyone who gets to coin a word and end up defining a generation!
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Hang it all up; you have arrived.
@pluralistic LOOOOOOOOVE TO SEE IT! CONGRATULATIONS! YOU'VE MADE THIS NERD MOMMA PROUD!
@pluralistic Woohoo! Well done you!
@pluralistic thanks #MerriamWebster for keeping current
@pluralistic thanks #MiriamWebster for keeping up to date
@pluralistic Google is a textbook case
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When a commercial free product adds commercials.
When a business mandates that its employees go into an office everyday even though the company operated just fine for 5 years when people were at home.
@pluralistic Congratulations!