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@BjornW Bending Spoons has a track record of acquiring online startups, laying off the existing staff and continuing the work themselves.
They also acquired Komoot, a bikers app. That's where the biker community coined the verb Komooting. To be "komooted" is a contraction of Komoot and "looting"; OTOH a rather typical dynamic of Venture Capital based business models.
@TheDutchChief @BjornW it may be still useful. Until they manage to get you hooked and dependent. Please also check the #enshittify strategy as articulated by Cory Doctorow. Maybe best to explore ways to track your biking while keeping controç over your data and integrations?
@BjornW Bending Spoons are parasites. Finance bros buying up tech firms, cutting costs, hiking prices on locked in users. Same outfit that destroyed Evernote and Meetup. Absolute textbook end stage #enshittification https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/18/meetup-com-is-so-over/
@andypiper @BjornW thank you for reminding me I need to migrate my stuff out of Vimeo, le sigh. As an Italian, this stings 1000x
@elena @andypiper @BjornW It's bleak that there's no obvious alternatives either - especially given how much they already charge.
I wonder what a community owned PeerTube service would lack by comparison. Obvs far fewer editing tools, not as nice interface, transcription/auto-subtitles, am guessing oEmbed support is much lower so harder to embed videos quickly…
@elena @BjornW every time they show up somewhere it makes me sad. But, they forced me to discover @joplinapp to replace Evernote, and it is way better! 💪🏻
