OK I read the bandcamp thing and… It’s not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?
Just in case:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification
Time to update this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Reddit
Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp’s enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music…
OK I read the bandcamp thing and… It’s not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?
Just in case:
None of those things happened with Bandcamp
Oh shit. Are there any alternatives?
Faircamp is being worked on. No ActivityPub but the developer is considering it
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/