Enshittification is always the end of most online platforms that aren’t federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.
First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.
Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)
Used to be just an image upload site for Reddit mainly . But then enshittyfication happened as usual
Enshittification is always the end of most online platforms that aren’t federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.
First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.
Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)
Third is selling out.
I read “first step is active directories” and was super confused lol
You and me both… I’ve switched to ADDS for OG win server AD though.
There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.
They added community features pretty heavily and it wasn’t bad at it. But then they got big and VC money came in.