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Aaaaand I just saw for the first time in the wild "#e14n". Took me a bit to figure out it was for "#enshittification". 
@joelvanderwerf Come to think of it, I think it is.
Could you please explain how that works? I seem to be missing some background information.
@iju it's an unusual style of abbreviation that hip young tech people used to use for developmental considerations of websites at the turn of the millennium, giving us "i18n" for "internationalization" and "a11y" for "accessibility". It's: first letter + number of missing letters + last letter.
@iju it's hilarious because that style of abbreviation is used for terms that refer to properties people try to build into websites.
Thank you for the explanation! I was busy trying to guess in what pronouncement would you get "fourteen" to sound like "shittificatio"
@siderea@universeodon.com @iju@mastodon.social They're called Numeronyms! 
The origins the most popular one "i18n" (short for internationalization) actually go back to the mid-to-late 80s. They've been around for quite a while!
@siderea oh noooooo
I've got e14n.com. I used it for "ephemeralisation", which I like a lot more than the other one.
@evan Aaaaaw, that sounds like that would have been useful.
@siderea oh that's what that is
fuck