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My guess is that Meta employees are a small minority of HN readership, so I think you’ll need to explain how you think the HN community is responsible. Unless y
by christophilus 3y ago
My guess is that Meta employees are a small minority of HN readership, so I think you’ll need to explain how you think the HN community is responsible. Unless you just mean the tech community at large. But that’s tautological, as the enshittifiers of tech are categorically a subset of the broad tech community.
- RetroTechie 3y agoLol - kitanata's is funniest comment I read today! But spot on if you think about it. That subset of HN users that work for FAANG, advertising company or similar, are like the sharp edge blade wielded by the business folks. So yeah, in a way parent is right. Not that I'd ever hold it against those HN users. You're (at most) the tool used, not the one wielding it.
- dasil003 3y agoThe framing is guaranteed to draw downvotes because many here are doing all they can to resist enshitification, even within FAANG, but unfortunately large corporations will always bend towards profits and the average consumer will always bend towards cheap and convenient. At the end of the day it’s extremely difficult to see what any individual (even the business folks) can really do to effect broad change. Some systemic change would be necessary, but it’s hard to see what changes would lead us in the right direction, especially given the inherent corruptability of incentives in any human-instituted system.
- jprete 3y agoThe whole thrust of tech for 20 years now has been to commodify every part of human relationships, knowledge, and experience that can be commodified, sell the commodified versions in place of the real thing, and sweep the unmeasurable/uncommodifiable values under the rug without talking about it too much.