I think they always need one company that people will forgive anything to normalize a practice and then everyone will start doing it. There was Twitter killing their API in all but name: Twitter still alive -> we can do that too without dying. Apple stopped including chargers and charges people extra if they actually want to use fast charging: People still buy iPhones -> we can do that too. This is like reverse competition. Someone will check how far they can push things and everyone else follows suit.
Watching businesses operate in the “how much can we get away with because the average capitalist consumer is either lazy, an idiot, or both” realm has been incredibly depressing.
Lemmy is the first time I think I’ve ever seen a significant amount of people actually fight back and abandon a shit product.
I think they always need one company that people will forgive anything to normalize a practice and then everyone will start doing it. There was Twitter killing their API in all but name: Twitter still alive -> we can do that too without dying. Apple stopped including chargers and charges people extra if they actually want to use fast charging: People still buy iPhones -> we can do that too. This is like reverse competition. Someone will check how far they can push things and everyone else follows suit.
Watching businesses operate in the “how much can we get away with because the average capitalist consumer is either lazy, an idiot, or both” realm has been incredibly depressing.
Lemmy is the first time I think I’ve ever seen a significant amount of people actually fight back and abandon a shit product.