It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…
  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Saving a click

    • Tell your investors that you’re in this for the long haul and they need to be too.
    • Your community is everything
    • Create more value than you capture
    • Empower your community, and then trust them
    • Find ways to make money that don’t undermine the community or the experience
    • Never charge for what was once free
    • Don’t insult the intelligence of your users
    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks.

      Doesn’t do much in cases where people are enthusiastic about enshitification, but it’s good for the outliers.

  • deong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    “Find ways to make money that don’t undermine the community or experience” and “never charge for what was once free” sound great, but you’ve left rather a large exercise for the reader there.

    Companies don’t enshittify themselves because they were too dumb to avoid killing the thing everyone loved. They do it because the thing everyone loved has been losing them money for a decade and now the investors say they’re not paying for it anymore.