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The enshittification cycle has always been here, but progress continues. It just feels like things are getting worse as the programs we grew up on enter the shit-zone part of their lifecycle.



Wikipedia seems like a weird exception to this rule.


They are super successful at gathering donations, right? I think their goal is fundamentally well-scoped to the sort budget they can hope to get just from donations.

I mean most of the value there is in text written by volunteers, which must not be so expensive to host (compared to, say, an image hosting site for example).


wikipedia isn't a "platform" in that sense of the term, they don't make money by being a middleman between producers, consumers and advertisers.




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