“These are the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints. If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (..) then you have the means, motive and opportunity to turn your service into a giant pile of shit.”
“To stop enshittification, it is not necessary to eliminate the profit motive – it is only necessary to make enshittification unprofitable.”
by @pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861019696086103
@erlend @pluralistic
But if torturing the peons is not profitable, where's the fun in being rich?
@yacc143 @pluralistic can’t have your planet-sized cake and eat it too
This is why Zoom has random annoyances. I just had to set my sister up on Zoom on another computer. The website STILL hides downloads for whatever reason and the application STILL won't let me upload multiple background images at once. I have to click and find one by one.
For the de facto 'only' video call software it's stupid annoying to go through this.
It's not the "only" video call software in common use. Some people use Microsoft Teams, which is inexplicably even worse. Microsoft Teams will inject static into your connection if you have the lèse-majesté of trying to use it (as it says you can) through a web page rather than by downloading its application.
@erlend Aren’t there always n+1 options of enshittifying a service when you have n regulations? I like the examples of proprietary things becoming open…but it feels like a very strong push in the opposite direction over the last decade or so. Yes, federation is a strong protection from enshittification, but I am still unsure if that is a real prospect for Bluesky rather than wishful thinking. @pluralistic