If a service reduced their free offerings later, how would you interpret it?

[PurpleDime]

@anon25722375

Enshittification is inevitable because of primarily a few reasons: growing excessive greed, no real business model apart from advertising, and rationale for business to exist for business sake only and not providing value to all users along with making money sake (in other words, profit being the only priority).

This is a very interesting take. I have actually asked myself this very question repeatedly for a while.

Is enshittification inevitable? In other words, is it possible for an ethical business to be successful in the long term without sorting to enshittification? And if enshittification is inevitable, what is the tolerable/accetpable amount of it?

To me the answer is not clear. It would seem that enshittification is indeed inevitable, because it is so pervasive, but that just feels too obvious and too accommodating of the narrative corporations want to sell us. Also accepting enshittification as inevitable would mean that it is ok to some degree, and I don’t think it is.