jrgd

@jrgd@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A general checklist for flags that software will enshittify:

  • owned by publicly-traded company
  • backed by VC or other expecting sources of funding
  • product is closed-source
  • company tries to circumvent open-source licensing of product (often for financial gain)
  • product has transferred ownership to a different company (through monetary transaction or similar)
  • product incorporates DRM
  • organization that owns the product has a track record for bad behavior

  On their own, not all of these flags are excellent indicators. Some are better than others in a vacuum. If you see a product start to check several of these flags, it might be time to jump ship early (to a fork or other competing project).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snap rant⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some additional reasons:

  • The native packages are broken or otherwise missing functionality
  • The app you’re using is quite volatile and needs upstream updates faster than the native packages are pushed

  Flatpak specific:

  • You want the app to be sandboxed