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It makes me wonder, is there any way to stop enshittification? Like Google was great when it maintained its goal that their best users should be on the app as little as possible. Ev said so much here about his new app.

Is there anyway to bring back the small company? Is it a greed thing or is it a policy thing.

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It can't be done when the possibility exists for large corporations, I think. Anti-competitive practices have made it a thing for big companies to buy small ones, and for small ones to have the goal of being bought.

I don't think Google was ever great, because it was fundamentally based on offering a free service for advertising, and that can't lead anywhere good.

We need a new set of laws that prevent corporations from becoming huge. It is the hugeness that allows for the level of degeneration we see in big tech platforms and the internet in general.

I know there’s a lot of nuance to the idea, but the general principal that an exit is something for entrepreneurs to aspire to, and not like building and running a service for the benefit of your fellow folks is depressing to me.

It is kind of, isn't it? One thing you can do is try and support businesses that are in it for the long haul, although that is hard to discern in the moment.

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