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• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Free to use” on a VC-backed service just means you’re the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I’m accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

  Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

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  • vermaterc@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also, what do you mean “easily downloadable”? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?

    have you seen: archive.org/details/stackexchange

    That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.

    Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

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    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

      reddit.com

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      • vermaterc@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow

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