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Peloton is adding a $95 activation fee for secondhand machines
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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Enshittification
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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
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We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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"Oh you got one of our machines for cheaper than we sell it? Well, now you have to pay $95 just to use it!"
Fuck these companies.
Well they could have gone the Tesla route and said you can't resell it at all. Still a dick move but it could be worse.
Tesla allows resale I thought, you just forfeit all your DLC, killing the resale value
Cybercuck is not allowed to be resold during the first year.
Oh wow, they sue you for $50k if you try. What confidence in their product.
It's an empty threat. Many of them are being resold on the secondary market and the value is dropping.
While I’ve seen some say that it’s a mechanism to stop scalpers from buying up the things and reselling at a huge margin, I’ve also seen what Tesla’s owner is capable of doing.
Speaking of owner's and their capabilities; Whistling Diesel is not my favorite guy, but he did a number on the Cybertruck.