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I mean, do I want to give money to a billionaire? Not exactly.

On the other hand, if we don’t start supporting premium software services and open source projects, the enshtiffication trend will get worse.

(I know Facebook isn’t open source, but I’ve seen enough open source projects abandoned or enshittified due to lack of support from users.)

I have to choose among my principles, and I’m strongly against user-hostile UI/UX paradigms, enshittification, and other downward quality trends in software/services.

(I pay to support my Lemmy instance - do you?)

Honestly, if this reduces user-hostile UI changes for paid accounts, and I can get a chronological feed of just friend activity with original content, I’d pay it at this point.

(I know there is supposed to be a friends-only feed now, but it’s not even close to being friends-only still.)

It’s a big if, and I don’t think it will be what I want, but I’m just putting it out there that I would pay if the experience is valuable enough.