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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

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[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Even if a great new service or product comes along it alway just gets bought out by somme billionaire

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. The Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement is a thing. Most of the Fediverse is FLOSS, and I doubt there's anyone who can take Lemmy or Mastodon closed source and buy every instance and then stop pop-up instances. It does require quite a bit of work, though, so it is difficult.

I think the real challenging thing is that a great FLOSS service needs to attract attention and care. When I bring up Fediverse/FLOSS alternatives to software my friends complain about, I'm met with lukewarm-at-best reactions, generally due to networking effects (I think).

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is defenitely the exception, this is why I hope more people switch soon

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the Fediverse is not doomed any time soon. In other areas XMPP is an example of an open source software based protocol since long and still being around, with active projects, and attempts to make things easier, like Snikket : https://snikket.org