• TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org
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      And to realize that it’s an endless loop if users keep jumping one platform after another, better to break free of that cycle by going open-source/federated network.

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        Yeah, people need to realize that maintaining a good social media platform just isn’t profitable without enshittifying it with ads or paywalling key features.

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      Good for including Steam in that list. The amount of die hard Steam fanatics is crazy and sad.

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      Wow. That was quite the read. Thank you very much for sharing that, it definitely clears up a few things that I had sort of intuited, but not really articulated in my own head.

    • katie@lemmy.tillicumnet.com
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      I’m glad to come across this article again - I first encountered it a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News due to some thread about Twitter drama and “enshittification” is now my favourite word.