BeepJan 26

France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

https://lemmus.org/post/19676136

Show threadmikenurreJan 26
Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.
Show threadPechenteJan 26
Seriously, enshitification is the only thing US companies do well these days. They just dig deeper moats around their walled gardens because they’re too greedy to make decent products that people actually want.
Show threadGenosseFlosse
I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.
Jan 26 at 11:27pmWeb
Show threadSerinusJan 27

It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.

When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.

Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.