Favorite new word: Enshittification Congrats @pluralistic...

Favorite new word: Enshittification

2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

“The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “#enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.”

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https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

Text Shot: The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.

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@drrjv @pluralistic

So... "enshitttification" won the whole... shitteree?

7 January at 5:50 | Open on mastodon.social

coolmccool

@drrjv @pluralistic Well done @pluralistic - you are *officially* part of history now.

#history #culture #language #linguistics

7 January at 7:21 | Open on mastodon.au

Cerulean_Lion

@drrjv @pluralistic

...Damn.

Let me rephrase.

GOD DAMN FUCK.

7 January at 8:46 | Open on dice.camp

Horst Trumtins son Horst

@drrjv @pluralistic love it!

7 January at 11:06 | Open on octodon.social

René Seindal

@drrjv @pluralistic Next one will be AIshittification

7 January at 12:54 | Open on mastodon.social

mosher

@drrjv @pluralistic Shouldn't the congrats go to corporations and major share holders?

7 January at 13:04 | Open on mastodon.online

BioSchweiz

@drrjv @pluralistic cory doctorow is great reading even in full sentences

7 January at 14:52 | Open on troet.cafe

Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

@drrjv @pluralistic crap

7 January at 15:47 | Open on sfba.social

Rick Thoman

@MishaVanMollusq @drrjv @pluralistic This seems like a word that we didn't know we needed but so perfectly describes many aspects of the post-2020 world.