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j2kun • yesterday at 10:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Or maybe, if everyone was willing to tolerate occasional downtime, they'd compensate for it by not having single-sources of failure on the things that go down, and thereby fixing the structural issues that allow enshittification (dependence that the companies running the services get to use to squeeze users)


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evnp • today at 12:04 AM

When you say "they'd compensate" are you referring to us end users trying to do banking when MS or CloudFlare go down? Or are you saying the big corps themselves would compensate? Enshittification stems from there being no incentive for them to do so, because they answer to shareholders not customers or competition. If you actually want structural issues fixed, I'd implore you to please hold these organisations to a higher standard of quality. I don't understand how average folks tolerating downtime leads to structural issues being fixed.