Federico HernandezMay 29

So 85% of the Komoot employees were fired by the new owners (which is their usual thing - they have done it at their other acquisitions as well - buying random SaaS products, fire everyone and then squeeze out the last Pennie’s from the product without investing into new things). What a shame… Enshitification is around the corner.

“Goodbye Komoot Team. What We Carried With Us” (from an employee gathering in the last days of being at Komoot)

https://youtu.be/qLJkK4Wn1HI

DC Rainmaker post https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/05/komoot-team-goodbye.html

#trailrunning #running #hiking #cycling #mountaineering #komoot #entshitification

Goodbye Komoot Team. What We Carried With Us

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Show threaddreiwert

@recollir How often does something like this need to happen until people understand that building your $service on the top of #opensource and #opendata can prevent exactly this effect? When someone comes along and buys the $service, at the point where #enshittification is around the corner, you just fork and move along.

#komoot #ownyourdata

Jun 1 at 8:40pmWeb
Show threadDavid MegginsonJun 1

@dreiwert Yes, I agree. The greatest superpower of open * is forkability. The threat of a fork prevents BDFLs from becoming actual dictators, and defangs corporate killer acquistions.

If you can't fork it, it's not open.

@recollir

#FOSS #OpenSource #OpenData #tech