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Not an employee, but: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

The only pattern I see in response is continued innovation and the rise of new platforms. I think a business model resembling a "[public] benefit corporation" [1] (in the USA at least) or a utility company may be more compatible with a social media company immune to enshittification.

[1]: https://www.delawareinc.com/blog/non-profit-corporation-vs-p...

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As a founder of a SaaS company that was formed as Delaware PBC, I will say that this route does make it quite hard to follow the traditional fundraising path.

VCs are spooked by anything that’s not your run-of-the-mill C Corp. PBCs are hard to get off the ground.

Yeah. I sometimes wonder if that was ever a possibility for them. Reddit as a PBC or even a non profit would be unstoppable. I think the VC money and push for growth has driven the product to a weird place.

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