[madeofpalk]

Can we flip it? Some companies are explicitly structured to guarantee enshittification.

Venture capital/private equity is what causes this. We've been poisoned to believe that websites should exist purely to achieve hyperscale and extract as much money as possible. When you look at the real physical world there are tons of small "mom and pop" businesses that are content with being self sustainable without some special corporate structure to legally require that.

Maybe websites could be the same?

[SoftTalker]

There are millions of websites like that. They don't show up on the first page of search results, so nobody finds them.

[godshatter]

Mainly because our biggest search engine is owned by an ad agency.

[Aeolun]

I work for private equity, and while we have a lot of layoffs, we don’t necessarily pursue short term gains (at least, as far as I can determine not as a factor of being PE anyway)