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What part of this is “enshittification”? It’s just a company starting to charge for a formerly free service. Hardly seems like that aggressive a move.

• some_furry 10mo ago
  From https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." We are on step 2: then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
  • matthewmacleod 10mo ago
    It is not abuse to charge what amounts to a relatively small fee for a useful service.
    • some_furry 10mo ago
      It's not "a relatively small fee for a useful service". It's an unnecessary fee to use self-hosted (i.e., not GitHub-hosted) components in CI pipelines.
      • matthewmacleod 10mo ago
        That’s the service. What aren’t you getting? The service is the execution and orchestration of CI jobs.
• ok123456 10mo ago
  They're squeezing their customers after locking in to juice their margins, having become a monopoly/monopsony. This is the classic enshitificaton playbook.
  • matthewmacleod 10mo ago
    Nobody is locked in (unless they made some incredibly bad decisions) and this is a tiny fee in exchange for a useful service. I’m just baffled by the response to this.
    • ok123456 10mo ago
      It's not baffling if you read his Enshitification book. This is phase 2. In 2010, people were saying it was very reasonable to start prioritizing publishers' ability to reach you over your organic contacts. After all, Facebook is providing this utility for free; shouldn't they be able to extract some additional revenue from their platform? And here we are in 2025...