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• vermaterc@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?

    reddit.com

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    • vermaterc@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It’s inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI

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