@PGLux@jon A surprising number of words in that neighborhood are already taken:
e.g. verscheissern (to pull someones leg), or verkacken (to fail at something)
as „shit“ is moderately well known, shitifizierung should work well.
(I do like merdifier/merdification tho)
@jon I believe the best word in German is the time-honoured "Verfall". Like in "Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie". Maybe a 2023 Thomas Mann would've written about "Twitter: Verfall eines sozialen Netzwerks"?
@jon Since the prefix en- implies that the platform is being enclosed in shit as it's being enshittified, "Umscheißung" seems appropriate. Though that implies that there is something non-shitty inside the shit. If we don't make this assumption, "Durchscheißung" could be even better. It would imply that the platform is being pervaded or soaked in shit, which I think describes the phenomenon quite accurately.
@jon Vermüllung Don‘t try word by word translation or you end up with similar nonsense as „eine Nachricht teilen“ which is nonsensical but now in common use.
@andrej yes and it is not correct here. There is no effort to even try to make it better in Enshittiffcation. So Verschlimmbesserung is definitely not the correct word for it in German, sorry.
@jon These sound like fine options. Although I don't mind using the English word in German. Germans generally agree that English words generally sound cooler, so there's that as well
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In French, I'm not sure you should stick to the “shit” root, but rather that of decay. You may then consider existing words (if you're not absolutely determined to coin a neologism) to form “déliquescence numérique” or “atrophie des plateformes.” (Granted: doesn't have the zing of “Enshittification.”)
@jon Shittyfizierung – still understandable for all (“shit” is a normal thing to say and at least my bubble uses the term “shitty” regularly) and it keeps the link to the original.
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