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Comment by camillomiller | Hacker News Reader

Enshittification is a real thing, and AirBnB suffers from it like all every other major digital services platforms.

I think having monopoly in the domain leads to this, similar to Netflix/Google/Facebook etc. Would love to have more competition in the space. Wonder whats preventing a competing platform to emerge, at least country/continent wise?

I'd go further - AirBnB is virtually the poster-child for enshittification.

It was so good and so refreshing once upon a time; now it's just another profit-maximising f*k-the-customer corporation.

Maybe I’m just lucky but I never had a bad experience with them… Of course only the disgruntled people speak up here - maybe it’s extra bad in the US, i used it in Europe, South America and Africa and had good experiences

But yea enshittification is real - just for me it’s no option to go back to booking hotels, they also are way down the enshittification pipeline

Same. I’m in US and mostly use in US, internationally I usually do hotels. To me they’re totally different and the comparisons are weird IMO. And personally I find most hotels grosser than most Airbnbs.

Concur.

I remember 10, 12 years ago.

They were great.

Also known as "shareholder primacy", one of the great achievements of late 20th century neoliberal economics. If you don't like the airbnb customer experience, that's because you're not their main priority. The solution is to become an airbnb shareholder and use your profit to stay in expensive hotels.

> Enshittification

While we are at it, can someone post content of posted link? Twitter used to work for anyone with internet connection - which is no longer the case.

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