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Just be thankful they did this upfront, instead of at the tail end of a painful evolution from an open-source effort to closed-source commercial product, comple
by shermantanktop 2y ago
Just be thankful they did this upfront, instead of at the tail end of a painful evolution from an open-source effort to closed-source commercial product, complete with a fig-leaf GitHub with all the interesting bits removed, and a graveyard of abandoned forks. They saved you all that disappointment.
- weinzierl 2y agoAbsolutely, sometimes I feel the mid 2020's will be known as the era of enshittification.
- kevindamm 2y agoIt merited "word of the year" last year, could happen.
- fmajid 2y agoThe Italian word for it, “Merdocene”, sounds even pithier.
- quesera 2y agoMerdocene sounds like geological epoch. Pleistocene, Holocene, etc. WFM!
- fmajid 2y agoExactly, or Anthropocene, describing the changes wrought by humans including climate change.
- kevindamm 2y agoCan we just call it "the scene"?
- bitwize 2y agoThe D in "Système D" (economic concept, not to be confused with the controversial init system) stands for démerder which means "to deshittify". We're gonna see a lot more Système D applied in the future...
- epicureanideal 2y agoLet’s hope the result is that the 2030s are known as the decade when consumers, users of apps, figured out it was worth paying for software from honest developers or companies, rather than getting it for free temporarily and then getting their data used in unexpected ways, enshittification, etc.
- bboygravity 2y agoHi, I'm a time traveller from the 2030s and chuckled a little at the prediction that people would still by writing apps by then.
- leduyquang753 2y agoWhat about when the consumers pay for software and still get their data harvested and the product enshittified?
- josephg 2y agoMicrosoft Windows has entered the chat. Apparently the next insiders version has even more ads in the start menu. This stuff is so horrific.
- einpoklum 2y agoThat is completely irrelevant. A large fraction, if not most, of potential users of software in the world can simply not afford paying any non-trivial amounts of money (by US/European figuring) for software of any kind; they simply don't have such money to spare. Look at median incomes in different countries: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
- generic92034 2y agoCountry-specific pricing is not a new thing, though. After all, if someone in a developing country paid for a smartphone they might be able to also pay for some apps.
- Kiro 2y agoSuch an overused word and in this context it's not even relevant.
- tjoff 2y agoIt is kind of relevant, we have zigbee. Which is a bit quirky, along comes Thread that promises to make it more open, better compatibility between vendors and more modern. If it turns out that big companies use Thread in a way to oppose those goals then I feel that is an attempt to enshittify the entire home-automation ecosystem. Which must be the holy grail of enshittification, I mean it is one thing to make your own product/service worse. But to make everyones products worse? Jackpot!
- Petersipoi 2y agoAt least back up why you think it's irrelevant if you're going to call someone out like this
- huhuhu111 2y ago[dead]