By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026"Enshittification" is less than five years old, and we know when and how it was invented. If you like it when *I* make up a word, you can't categorically object to other people making up new meanings for this word. 7/ 1101
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026I didn't need a word-coining license to come up with enshittification, and you don't need a semantic drift license to use it to mean something else. 8/ 1100
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026I wrote a whole danged essay about this, but still, hardly a day goes by without someone trying to enlist me in their project to scold and shame strangers for using the word incorrectly: 9/ 280
