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   Mike Ely (me@social.taupehat.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 23:58:57 JST Mike Ely

   • Cory Doctorow

   The world owes @pluralistic an unending debt of gratitude for the word "enshittification," a word so useful that even my browser's spell-checker recognizes it. As a succinct way of conveying a somewhat broad concept, it has opened up space for a lot of thought and conversation... and the occasional not-terrible listicle. Thanks, man.
   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/

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     Claire, The Ultimate Worrier (waitworry@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 23:58:54 JST Claire, The Ultimate Worrier

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     • fabriziob

     @fabriziob @me @pluralistic apparently エンシット化 (enshitto-ka) is getting actual use in Japanese so far according to google

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     fabriziob (fabriziob@mastodon.uno)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 23:58:55 JST fabriziob

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @me @pluralistic
     Other languages should start getting their properly localized versions of "enshittification".

     For the Italian, I propose "apputtanificazione".

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:36:38 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Seiðr
     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier
     • fabriziob
     if that distinction is relevant, it would be worth preserving in translations. @pluralistic@mamot.fr, did you mean "enshittify sth" to mean "turn sth into shit" or "add shit to sth"?
     
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     Seiðr (illuminatus@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:36:39 JST Seiðr

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     • Claire, The Ultimate Worrier
     • fabriziob

     @waitworry @fabriziob @me @pluralistic There is debate in Spanish because there exists the verb "enmierdar", but that has a sense of adding shit to something, while some (as myself) consider that "mierdificación" would be more appropriate, since the process of enshitification is not just putting shit into the product, but turning the product itself into shit.