• zero_gravitas@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I think that the FOSS Fediverse platforms are significantly resistant to enshittification.

    That same article explores what enables enshittification and what precludes it:

    The Netheads wanted to build diverse networks with lots of offers, lots of competition, and easy, low-cost switching between competitors (thanks to interoperability).

    Fediverse platforms:

    • are highly interoperable - e.g. you can use Lemmy or Kbin and still see the same posts
    • mostly FOSS, so anyone can fork them whenever they want if they don’t like some particular change
    • most instances currently aren’t operated for profit - certainly if your instance started displaying ads you could switch to another instance (or set one up) and still access all the same content as you did previously