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What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Signal is good so far. Firefox is teetering on the edge, but it's also good so far (poor little fox). Lemmy and Mastodon are both great, but maybe that's EZ mode because they're built as alternatives to proprietary social media sites.

I pay for ArsTechnica and I feel that I get a lot of value out of doing so. And keep in mind, being a paying subscriber of a service does not safeguard the service from enshittification, so that's quite great

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Firefox is teetering on the edge

Get LibreWolf . They take FF builds and rip out the telemetry/ads/AI/enshit.
It's... beautiful

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some people miss this but Librewolf uses most of the code from Firefox...so its still VERY dependent upon Firefox developers/services to do its thing. Its still better, but if Firefox suffers, then Librewolf does too.

Theres an excellent graphic here: https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source
I used to compile and contribute a long time ago. Its pretty easy to get it working and make adjustments...when you know what Firefox does in the background.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I used to compile and contribute

Thank you for your past service o7

(I want to normalize open source contributors getting the same kind of recognition for providing a Public Good that we currently give to teachers, de-escalatory police, and following-legal-orders military)

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's... beautiful

Until sites don’t work because they block too much.

I’ve settled on Waterfox.