They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • @patatahooliganEnglish
    4•9 months ago

    It’s definitely not “draconian” to make enshittification illegal. But you don’t regulate the turning-to-shit part. You regulate the part where they offer a service for free or too cheap so that they kill the competition. This is called anti-competitive and we supposedly address it already. You also regulate what an EULA can enforce and the ability of companies to change the EULA after a user has agreed to it. Again, these concepts already exist in law.

    We’ve essentially already identified these problems and we have decided that we need to address them, but we been ineffective in doing so for various reasons.

    • just another devEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      But you don’t regulate the turning-to-shit part.

      Yups, that’s what I was getting at. There can be very good reasons to do things that are impopular with end users.

      At the same time, without reddit turning to shit, Lemmy wouldn’t have thrived the way it is now. Change is part of life, as is platforms turning to shit. You move over and learn to deal with it. You might be able to nudge it in the right direction, but in the end, corporations gonna corporate.