this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
555 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

1928 readers
7 users here now

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news, it probably belongs here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

It's been a long journey, but here we arrive. Welcome home.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly, this is the only logical conclusion of things that are run for profit. Here's hoping the federated model proves more resistant in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doctorow has it right. Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doctorow’s great, first heard about him from the srsly wrong podcast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

His episode with Adam Conover's Factually podcast is great. A fucking must watch/listen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funding, even in a not-for-profit sense, will always be an issue. Wikipedia struggles, but kinda makes it work. We're going to need something creative for the fediverse...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 1 points 1 year ago

I donate to them fairly regularly, Wikipedia is fucking great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that doesn't really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you're thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

so, survival doesn't necessarily have to be at stake