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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[+] 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (9 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This! Steam is the only proprietary program I use on my Linux machines that I'm actually happy with and don't want to get rid of

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Their size & net worth vs enshitification levels are suspiciously high!!

    Gabe & co better not die out before they turn it/some parent company into a nonprofit.

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  • [+] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Idk, plenty of companies that tick all three boxes and are not like this at all.
    A single owner vs a company without a principal shareholder & how they threat humans is just a gamble.

    Overall it does have to do with ownership & how the company culture was built tho - in Valve there are like 20 people running a billon monies company. They all have enough, and are happy.

    Oh, and Valve it's def a "for profit" c company, being an actual non-profit is a completely different thing.

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