• festnt@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    doesnt gabe already do basically nothing though? afaik there are other people managing valve and he only acts as valve’s face

    also theyd have to be extremely stupid to start enshittification when they already have the best ways to monetize games (skins in cs2, hats in tf2, etc)

    im not saying its not possible, im just a very optimistic person

    • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe
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      9 days ago

      also theyd have to be extremely stupid to start enshittification when they already have the best ways to monetize games (skins in cs2, hats in tf2, etc)

      Micro$oft also has the most dominant operating system in the market. Yet, with every update, I find an increase in “switched to GNU/Linux” and “Debloat Windows” stuff

      Google once had the best search engine in the world, delivering the most relevant search results. Now it delivers the most relevant ads.

      Mozilla was initially the innovator of the internet, seemingly destined to dominate the market. Then, it abandoned^(†) its main product, the browser, to pursue other endeavors that ultimately failed. The only reason that Firefox is relevantis due to the fact that even when stale, Firefox is much less enshittified than it’s competitors (and not dependent on Chromium).

      ^(†) Mozilla basically stopped innovating with Firefox until recently. On desktop Firefox, vertical tabs are absent; only recently, in nightly versions, have they been implemented. On Android, Firefox still lacks cross-site isolation, which has been in Chromium for basically forever now.