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Part of me wonders if this is the natural outcome of things. The world gets faster, so we're more efficient, now we have more memory and time in a datacenter,
by abofh 2y ago
Part of me wonders if this is the natural outcome of things. The world gets faster, so we're more efficient, now we have more memory and time in a datacenter, let's do it on our servers so we can charge a monthly fee! That works, but now things are slow until the next boost (say bandwidth/storage/whatever) - now we're more efficient, let's shove ads on it, there's plenty of end-user CPU cycles we can profit from.
It seems like enshittification is not just the inevitable outcome, but almost desirable (from a profit standpoint), and thus things getting faster for you only help me (the vendor) if I can extract _more_ value by things being faster - otherwise why would I spend money to make things better?