• latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That moment when there’s one company with which you’d almost be OK if they turned into a monopoly (still no, though).

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      Valve is that perfect example of being just shitty enough to be annoying without stepping over the line into complete enshittification. But this too will happen. I reckon there’d be good odds of it happening not long after Gabe retires.

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        If they ever go public then yes, enshittification is guaranteed. As long as they remain a privately held company, there’s a chance they can hold the enshittification at bay.

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        That’s my main worry, and why I’d never want a monopoly of any sort with contemporary hierarchical structures.