Every business model is misaligned with users in the limit.
- Every business model is misaligned with users in the limit.
- But some are more misaligned with their users.
- Even subscriptions see the siren's call for marginal returns of ads.
- An inescapable pull towards enshittification.
- Although perhaps the pull towards ads even with subscriptions only shows up if there's only one provider.
- For example, for copyrighted content, only services that have a license, or where the user has bought a license, can show it to you, increasing switch cost.
- Maybe subscription-based services[mg] that don't have any kind of content lock in could be more deeply user-aligned for longer.
- But having your data in a hard-to-export form is a form of lock-in.
- Apparently Strava makes you pay for a premium subscription to see your best 5k times.