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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and their unknowable secret sauce to win capitalism was to not overdo it and enshittify. Wild stuff. Who could tell that keeping your userbase happy is more productive in the long term than chasing "growth" at every turn?

[–] perturbedstarstuff@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Give it a generation or three, but yes.

Companies that "haven't gone evil" yet are like dynasties that aren't ruled by a mad king, yet.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It usually comes after the original founder leaves or dies.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it'll be extremely interesting to see the post-Gabe Valve era

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m terrified, honestly.