• Hegar@fedia.io
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    It’s not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it’s leverage that enshittifies a service.

    A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users’ lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

    Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

    The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.

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    I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

    I don’t know who this person is, but that seems a bit pompous.

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      22 minutes ago

      Your probably should if your interested in digital rights. Pretty good author too.

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      He’s a c-list celebrity and genre author. I generally agree with what he says and enjoy his writing, but I’d be surprised if any of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.