• Corgana@startrek.website
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    6 months ago

    I know this is a joke but “Enshittification” requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can’t really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

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      6 months ago

      Except if you are locked out of system management and you just can’t switch. Or only at the price of hardware incompatibilities and consumer apps refusing to work when they see you after practicing your ownership of the device.
      See Android.

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      6 months ago

      The video actually addresses that by mentioning a company coming in nice at first and then doing EEE to kill off ll competition and leave them the only significant player in the space

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      6 months ago

      it can happen if you have some form vendor lockin, or if you are an oligarch in a cartel. it doesnt need a monopoly strictly speaking.

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      6 months ago

      Not really. On Lemmy, it seems to just refer to anything these days

      And that includes theoretical predictions for things that never happened yet