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Another way to counteract enshittification is to pay for things, then stop paying when they enshittify.
by gzread 8mo ago
Another way to counteract enshittification is to pay for things, then stop paying when they enshittify.
- ulrttrktwej 8mo agojust stop paying them, as though migrating to an alternative is free and easy
- denkmoon 8mo agoIn this case it really is easy. It's just wireguard with some NAT negotiation sauce and convenient auth layer.
- gzread 8mo agoYou're doing the Dropbox rsync comment.
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- ZoomZoomZoom 8mo agoTo be fair, only the mesh part of the problem is quadratic. Reliable hole punching is not that easy either. As far as I know, there is a level of circumvention in case the unwrapped WG is blocked too. The integrated service is very valuable and obviously genuinely popular.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoNo it's not. Like moving from Instagram to something else, that's going to be very tough because nobody else is on there. Same with WhatsApp.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoThat doesn't really help. It still happens. And you still need to move to something else. And they'll try to tie you in by making migration as tough as possible.