Comment on What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?
ElGosso@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Check out the business lifecycle. “Enshittification” occurs after a business reaches maturity and has to squeeze more money out of its users or decline. Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter are all businesses, so they follow this cycle - Lemmy and Mastodon are not so they do not. That’s not to say that bad moderation can’t crater a user base, but it’s not inevitable like it is with businesses.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah not to use the same metaphor everyone seems to use but email didn’t go through “enshittification” and like fax machines didn’t, even though they died out, because it’s a feature of the business cycle, not a feature of technological innovation.
ElGosso@hexbear.net 8 months ago
What if I told you it was more than just the business cycle
What if I told you the entire economic structure acted like this marx-joker
Omniraptor@hexbear.net 8 months ago
That’s because email and fax machines aren’t businesses either.