Hmmm. This also means that there is an opportunity in there.
In the Early Modern Ages, powerful people wove endless plots against one another, the Borgias held papacy, poisoning was a common way to solve disputes, all sorts of offices were sold openly...
... and in the middle of this, the Huguenots and Calvinists built huge business empires by being known as honest and reliable.
Maybe there is some space to repeat this by just avoiding the entshittification trap. I can see this happening in some corners of the IT world already. For example, Cloudflare has a good reputation in almost all regards. Linux has also held and expanded its market share by not being scammy and sleazy.
I even feel that CloudFlare is beginning to go the way of the enshittification — I don’t have anything in particular to point to at the moment but the data points are adding up, for me
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Hmmm. This also means that there is an opportunity in there.
In the Early Modern Ages, powerful people wove endless plots against one another, the Borgias held papacy, poisoning was a common way to solve disputes, all sorts of offices were sold openly...
... and in the middle of this, the Huguenots and Calvinists built huge business empires by being known as honest and reliable.
Maybe there is some space to repeat this by just avoiding the entshittification trap. I can see this happening in some corners of the IT world already. For example, Cloudflare has a good reputation in almost all regards. Linux has also held and expanded its market share by not being scammy and sleazy.
I even feel that CloudFlare is beginning to go the way of the enshittification — I don’t have anything in particular to point to at the moment but the data points are adding up, for me