this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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The real cost of enshittification is that they make it impossible for others to run honest business.
Who will pay a subscription for privacy respecting services when there are a dozen free alternatives. True cost of running online business has been completely hidden from users and for so long that they will never accept those that want to cover the costs upfront.
e.g. how many of you remain on Lemmy if instance owners asked for a monthly fee to cover their server costs?
I'd pay if the price was reasonable.
Would you pay $10/m for a search engine?
Yeah, and it also happens to get me access to the tool that was able to summarize this video without watching it.
But most people would probably choose the $5 tier, I think.
I was thinking about using Kagi myself, but it's more expensive than my site hosting, mail and 1 TiB storage Nextcloud instance combined. It's hard to justify that cost if the alternative is free and works fine enough most of the time.
How much of your time does $10 buy? Surely the solidify is worth $10 of your time
$10 isn't a lot, but currently that is 2.06 hours for me (including conversion to USD). I might reconsider it later when that changes.