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disenshittify

disenshittify verb: to reverse the enshittification of.

Verb

disenshittify (third-person singular simple present disenshittifies, present participle disenshittifying, simple past and past participle disenshittified)

  1. (neologism) To reverse the enshittification of.
    • […] disenshittify the internet we're stuck with today, and to build a new, good internet that is both enshittification-resistant and accessible to the normies we love […]2024, Evan Prodromou, ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web
    • Thanks to intellectual property laws that ban "circumvention," companies that embed undesirable anti-features in apps can use the law to destroy rivals that disenshittify their offerings.2025, Cory Doctorow, Enshittification

Forms of disenshittify

third-person singular presentdisenshittifies
present participledisenshittifying
past participledisenshittified
pastdisenshittified

Origin of disenshittify

From dis- + enshittify.

Questions about disenshittify

What does disenshittify mean?
Disenshittify means to reverse the enshittification of.
What part of speech is disenshittify?
Disenshittify is a verb.
What is the past tense of disenshittify?
The past tense of disenshittify is disenshittified.

Words near disenshittify in the dictionary

  1. disenrolments
  2. disenrols
  3. disensanity
  4. disenshittified
  5. disenshittifies
  6. disenshittify
  7. disenshittifying
  8. disenshroud
  9. disenshrouded
  10. disenshrouding
  11. disenshrouds

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