constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
Build FOSS software that's clearly better than the alternatives, but make it *exactly* the right amount of hostile-to-corporations; so that it is frustrating to use and slows down business processes, but isn't *so* bad that it justifies buying or developing an alternative
Take advantage of corporations' inability to see the long-term costs resulting from short-term savings. If they can enshittify our software, we can enshittify theirs
Also works with existing projects that are already widely adopted by corporations
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@joepie91 how do you envision the enshittification?
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@pinoaffe That's the process of gradually making it shittier (for corporate use) but never to such a degree that it's bad enough for them to jump ship
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@joepie91 yeah let me rephrase my question: how does one make software specifically shitty for corporate use without making it as shitty for everyone?
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@pinoaffe (Note that they usually won't *tell* you that someone else told them to; they will just insist that they need the feature and be incredibly vague as to why, or come up with an explanation/usecase that doesn't make sense)
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@joepie91 ah yes, thanks!