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Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"? (lemmy.world)
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I'm thinking even for cases of like shrinkflation.

I saw an article about potentially cheaper RAM here, so it got me curious if things ever really get better on occasion.

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think that is the case for ACM and Dagstuhl. ACM used to have this ACM open system where department pay a fixed amount subscription per year depends on the department size.

Now that all ACM paper is open access, I don't know if they are still doing that. Dagstulh never had these, as far as I know, hosting articles are extremely cheap.

These is certainly not the norm everywhere, but our field have already navigated out the swamp of free access, I hope more fields wil.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ok? Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer all do this.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    I am not disagreeing or attempting to downplay that academic publishing is still bad in many fields. But there are fields that are now out of the dumper fire, so I sm hopeful that other fields can learn from these and escape.

    I also want to highlight the solution that worked is organization, public funding, and academic governance. So if you are unhappy about the situation in the field, maybe it is a good time to organize all your unhappy colleagues and build something new and better :)

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