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…
“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.
“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.