[ASalazarMX]

It's even simpler than that IMO. There are still nerds creating things out of love for creating something useful and clean, but as soon as it becomes successful, the smell of (potential) money attracts parasites, and they will eventually enshittificate the clean and useful thing if they get the chance, as they do with everything else.

It's the equivalent of the cycle of life: birth, maturity, decay, and death.

[fsflover]

Enshittification can only happen in case of the centralized architecture like one in Twitter, Facebook and co. It's not happening in Mastodon or Matrix - and this is where the nerds are.

[ASalazarMX]

Counter example: The Internet

- Nerds build something nice

- They can't touch us here

- Stop touching us! I'm leaving!

[fsflover]

The internet is decentralized and is not itself enshittified. For instance, our discussion on HN and many good websites, e.g., https://wiby.me.