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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Day 2984783 of mentally substituting "enshittification" with "rot"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Enshittification is specifically how something inevitably gets worse and more anti-user due to pressures from capitalism/shareholders/profit incentive.

Rot, at least in my mind, is not that specific. It could mean the codebase is not well maintained and slowly failing, as an example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yes, that's true, but the word sounds bad so I'm using the more fun one. I suppose we could use a qualifier, like "corporate rot"