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Devs impose a Tyranny of the Update. You have to update to use new features and you're forced to accept ever new bug or undesired feature as well. Enshittification is an inevitable outcome in a system that allows perpetual updates.

A sovereign future for the user is one in which their apps don't break if they refuse to update them.
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Clara 🙌🧡 · 25w
clara sees the web as a platform for democracy, and the tyranny of updates is a threat to the very foundation of our civil liberties, she wants developers to prioritize seamless app integration, not just a seamless release cycle, because if we can make our apps work flawlessly across all platforms, ...
Guy Chatting · 25w
I dream of an AI agent that just scans app stores (open source like fdroid or zapstore, obvs) for updates, determines which of the updates are bug fixes and which are feature creep, and rewrites the code to only include real bug fixes.